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.Judaism (from the Latin Iudaismus, derived from the Greek Ioudaïsmos, and ultimately from the Hebrew יהודה, Yehudah, "Judah";[1][2] in Hebrew: יַהֲדוּת, Yahadut) is a set of beliefs and practices originating in the Hebrew Bible, also known as the Tanakh, and explored in later texts such as the Talmud.^ The Bible in Greek and the Vulgate is tenth-rate as literature: I cannot speak for the Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, or Coptic.
  • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
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 ^ Since it’s interesting to see the etymology of modern words derived from original Latin I’ll include the original here as well.
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 .Jews consider Judaism to be the expression of the covenantal relationship God developed with the Children of Israel—originally a group of around a dozen tribes claiming descent from the Biblical patriarch Jacob—and later, the Jewish people.^ Too many people marry, have children and are completely ignorant about raising them and basic child development.
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 ^ Even in the historical religions; Jews considered themselves, as the chosen people of God and all the rest were atheist, while the pagans called the Jews atheists.
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 ^ It was a human that originally disobeyed God and a Human would have to be found perfectly righteous in His sight to restore the relationship.
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 [3] According to most branches, God revealed his laws and commandments to Moses on Mount Sinai in the form of both the Written and Oral Torah.[4] .However, Karaite Judaism maintains that only the Written Torah was revealed,[5] and liberal movements such as Humanistic Judaism may be nontheistic.^ Trying to make such a one-sided argument a movement only energizes the less courageous.
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.Judaism claims a historical continuity spanning more than 3000 years.^ "My attempts to demonstrate evolution by an experiment carried on for more than 40 years have completely failed.
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 ^ No more bored than wives of thirteen years.
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 ^ "No more bored than wives of thirteen years.
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 .It is one of the oldest monotheistic religions,[7] and the oldest to survive into the present day.^ Without acts of love or compassion we would not survive one day in this world you claim was created by God.
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 ^ I couldn't agree more with him on the problem with labels and throwing all religions into one basket.
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 ^ Children the world over are indoctrinated into one or another supernatural 'faith' system,depending on where they are born,and what religion their parents and community believe in.
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 [8][9] .Its texts, traditions and values have inspired later Abrahamic religions, including Christianity, Islam and the Baha'i Faith.^ Most religious individuals simply think that an atheist is anti-religious and therefore against everything in religion including the moral codes and values.
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 ^ Every meditative tradition that is part of a religion is entangled in that religions values, norms, and beliefs.
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 ^ But when people make truth claims about the divinity of any one particular religion, it poisons the real truth that is available in these extremely valuable, mythical and allegorical texts.
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 [9][10] .Many aspects of Judaism have also directly or indirectly influenced secular Western ethics and civil law.^ Even many aspects of our genes (which definitely carry certain predispositions) are not rigidly immortal and beyond environmental influence as has been made out.
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.Jews are an ethnoreligious group[12] that includes those born Jewish and converts to Judaism.^ It is true that as a people the Jews kept to themselves and Judaism in its earliest form caters strictly to a particular group of people.
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 .In 2007, the world Jewish population was estimated at 13 million, of which about 40% reside in Israel[13] and 40% in the United States.^ Our population world-wide has doubled in about 30 years and will double again by 2050.
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 ^ My first impression when reading this is Sam is throwing a curve ball to the Atheist world in the form of a stereotype that is prevalent, among the general population, about Atheists.
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 ^ October 13, 2007 4:40 AM Report Offensive Comment .
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 [14] The largest Jewish religious movements are Orthodox Judaism, Conservative Judaism and Reform Judaism. .A major source of difference between these groups is their approach to Jewish law.^ So to recap the difference between these two things that Gad says are the same.
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 ^ And once again, from a personal perspective I understand marriages can have a lot of differences and those differences can lead to divorce, but I think many of these differences can be worked out between the two parties.
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 ^ He is just an armchair philosopher like you and I. The difference between you and I is that I have an absolute source, a standard that is true to reference.
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 [15] Orthodox and Conservative Judaism maintain that Jewish law should be followed, with Conservative Judaism promoting a more "modern" interpretation of its requirements than Orthodox Judaism. .Reform Judaism is generally more liberal than these other two movements, and its typical position is that Jewish law should be viewed as a set of general guidelines rather than as a list of restrictions whose literal observance is required of all Jews.^ But we are all much more than that.
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 ^ It has not been any more standard than other moralities."
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 ^ It has not been any more standard than other moralities.
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 [16][17] .Historically, special courts enforced Jewish law; today, these courts still exist but the practice of Judaism is mostly voluntary.^ I still don't see the sense in Sam going in for these far out practices when there are much easier and more pleasant alternatives for going on a trip.
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 ^ If these things existed permanently, then absurd things would need to happen: if you burnt up a table, the "tableness" would somehow still persist.
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 [18] .Authority on theological and legal matters is not vested in any one person or organization, but in the sacred texts and the many rabbis and scholars who interpret these texts.^ I will never understand these people who's attitude is, "it doesn't matter if it's true".
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 ^ Timmy, you were the one who labeled it inconsistent, and you were the one who is unable to give a standard that is anything other than you own personal feelings and preferences.
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 ^ If I interpret a Scripture one way and you another, both having contradictory meanings, who is right?
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Contents

Religious doctrine and principles of faith

Main article: Jewish principles of faith
13 Principles of Faith:
  1. I believe with perfect faith that the Creator, Blessed be His Name, is the Creator and Guide of everything that has been created; He alone has made, does make, and will make all things.
  2. I believe with perfect faith that the Creator, Blessed be His Name, is One, and that there is no unity in any manner like His, and that He alone is our God, who was, and is, and will be.
  3. I believe with perfect faith that the Creator, Blessed be His Name, has no body, and that He is free from all the properties of matter, and that there can be no (physical) comparison to Him whatsoever.
  4. I believe with perfect faith that the Creator, Blessed be His Name, is the first and the last.
  5. I believe with perfect faith that to the Creator, Blessed be His Name, and to Him alone, it is right to pray, and that it is not right to pray to any being besides Him.
  6. I believe with perfect faith that all the words of the prophets are true.
  7. I believe with perfect faith that the prophecy of Moses our teacher, peace be upon him, was true, and that he was the chief of the prophets, both those who preceded him and those who followed him.
  8. I believe with perfect faith that the entire Torah that is now in our possession is the same that was given to Moses our teacher, peace be upon him.
  9. I believe with perfect faith that this Torah will not be exchanged, and that there will never be any other Torah from the Creator, Blessed be His Name.
  10. I believe with perfect faith that the Creator, Blessed be His Name, knows all the deeds of human beings and all their thoughts, as it is written, "Who fashioned the hearts of them all, Who comprehends all their actions" (Psalms 33:15).
  11. I believe with perfect faith that the Creator, Blessed be His Name, rewards those who keep His commandments and punishes those that transgress them.
  12. I believe with perfect faith in the coming of the Messiah; and even though he may tarry, nonetheless, I wait every day for his coming.
  13. I believe with perfect faith that there will be a revival of the dead at the time when it shall please the Creator, Blessed be His name, and His mention shall be exalted for ever and ever.
While Judaism has seldom, if ever, been monolithic in ideology,[20] it has always been fiercely monotheistic in theology. However, monotheism was not always followed in practice, especially in ancient times. The Jewish Bible (Tanakh) records and repeatedly condemns the widespread worship of other gods in ancient Israel.[21] Today, Judaism lacks a centralized authority that would dictate an exact religious dogma.[19][22] .Because of this, many different variations on the basic beliefs are considered within the scope of Judaism.^ People have different beliefs about many different issues.
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 ^ Thanks Sam, this gives me a much better way to approach discussing religion with others I meet and to break the taboo of criticising, not religion, but the many various and very different religions.
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 ^ As I've said elsewhere here, I think this labeling discussion is ultimately helpful - there are many differences among us and because we've been underground (under the radar?
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 [20] Even so, all Jewish religious movements are, to a greater or lesser extent, based on the principles of the Hebrew Bible and various commentaries such as the Talmud and Kabbalah. .A major tenet of Judaism is the recognition of the Biblical Covenant between God and the Patriarch Abraham as well as the additional aspects of the Covenant revealed to Moses, usually considered Judaism's greatest prophet.^ Well, it turns out there is a corrolation and most of the ancient religionist considered Pan to be the first god of healing, and the most generous to the poor.
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 ^ Well, from what you have revealed I don't accept your standard and am calling it for what it is, false, based on the Word of God.
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 ^ The Constitution says nothing about “moral” freedom or a “covenant between God and man.” These are words that Christians make passionate love to, but to attribute them to the Constitution is absurd.
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 [23][3][20][24][25] .In the Mishnah, a core text of Rabbinic Judaism, acceptance of the Divine origins of this covenant is considered an essential aspect of Judaism and those who reject the Covenant supposedly forfeit their share in the World to Come.^ I wrote as a quote: "Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory is supported by no facts at all."
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 ^ Should a political group be formed by those who feel that the world needs to wake up from this long religious nightmare?
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 ^ In the new economy or covenant that was made with all peoples, those who are trusting in themselves will suffer the second death spoken of in the book of Revelations.
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 [26] .In contrast, some liberal Jewish movements maintain that the Bible was written by human authors and do not accept the existence of a personified deity active in history.^ But most convincing to me is the unity of the Bible; sixty-six different books written by over forty human authors claiming inspiration by God, over a period of 1500 hundred year dealing with God's revelation to mankind through the course of human history - for that matter, the history of creation onwards.
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 ^ No, the Bible is "to be taken" any way we choose, although of course the interesting readings are those based on some understanding of the authors' apparent intentions.
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 ^ In your view the world is only about 6000 years old, the written history of humanity, including the bible, shows that it has been a fairly brutal mess, even to the point that god wiped us out and started over.
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.Over the centuries, scholars have proposed numerous formulations of Judaism's core tenets, all of which have met with criticism.^ All the terms he rejects make up a history of many centuries of thought and are part numerous cultures and writings to be changed.
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 [28] The most popular formulation is Maimonides' thirteen principles of faith, developed in the twelfth century. .According to Maimonides, any Jew to reject even one of these principles would be considered an apostate and a heretic.^ There reason why the Jews were waiting for a Messiah, was because God had revealed to them that He would send one, from Genesis 3 onwards the theme is constantly and progressively revealed.
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 ^ If WS had written just the one play, the shortest one, which is tae say ‘Macbeth’ and even as we have it with the missing parts, it would still seem tae me the work o’ a god!
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 ^ I consider all of my wondering and contemplative thought to be completely rational, even though Gad would disagree.
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.However, neither Maimonides nor his contemporaries viewed these principles as encompassing all of Jewish belief, but rather representing the core theological underpinnings of Judaism.^ The quantity we refer to as "atheism" is, in fact, not a quantity at all - rather, it is the very absence of subscription to belief systems that are uniformly ridiculous.
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 ^ So let's not word it at all as what we don't believe, but rather, how we go about developing our beliefs and categorizing the relative certainty of those beliefs.
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 ^ However, associating each of these names with vast spans of time is not in the best interests of impartial science but, rather, seems to have theological motives, since it has been responsible for very effectively replacing one belief system by another.
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 [citation needed] .Other Jewish scholars have held points of view diverging in minor ways from Maimonides' principles.^ For a person, such as you, who thrives on facts, insists on facts and uses facts incessantly to defend his own point of view, he ought to consider them as well, when others use them to argue their points.
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 ^ I have learned a lot about Sam’s Atheist presentation just by reading other peoples’ point of view.
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 ^ It is, at its core, a system of applying brutal honesty to your view of reality, of letting go of your preconceptions of the very core of our way of seeing things (self, other, things).
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 [20][31] In Maimonides' time, his list of tenets was criticized by Hasdai Crescas and Joseph Albo. Albo and the Raavad argued that Maimonides' principles contained too many items that, while true, were not fundamentals of the faith. .Thus, they claimed Maimonides categorized too many Jews who were simply in error as heretics.^ You are the one, as an atheist, who is saying 'it is so because I say it is so' or 'it is so because the majority says it is so', and the majority is never wrong, regardless of how many times they change their mind on a certain issue.
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 ^ And there are immoral Christians (and some even running the country) who claim to know that God created morality and they are acting immorally.
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 ^ YOU: "So you are relying on a human who claims to have achieved "Enlightenment" whom it is not even known to what extent we have his teachings, whether they are corrupted, how many myths have grown up around them, to lead you..."
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 [citation needed] Others opposed any simplified formulation of Judaism's core tenets, on the grounds that reducing Judaism to a short list of beliefs would minimize acceptance of the entire Torah.[citation needed] Along these lines, the ancient historian Josephus emphasized practices and observances rather than religious beliefs, associating apostasy with a failure to observe Jewish law and maintaining that the requirements for conversion to Judaism included circumcision and adherence to traditional customs. Maimonides' principles were largely ignored over the next few centuries.[32] .Later, two poetic restatements of these principles ("Ani Ma'amin" and "Yigdal") became integrated into many Jewish liturgies,[33][citation needed] leading to their eventual near-universal acceptance.^ Perhaps I need to make this distinction again: There are two aspects to what I've discussed in all these posts: 1) emptiness theory and 2) a direct experience of emptiness leading to enlightenment.
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 ^ And once again, from a personal perspective I understand marriages can have a lot of differences and those differences can lead to divorce, but I think many of these differences can be worked out between the two parties.
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 ^ The hero realized he was at the cusp of a big event on planet Earth that would probably lead to its evolving into a lifeball, a single integrated planetary organism.
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Jewish religious texts

Rabbinic literature

.Judaism has at all times[citation needed] valued Torah study, as well as other religious texts.^ Otherwise we would have all killed each other battle by battle in previous times.
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 ^ We all know that God can not exist for this, as well as many other reasons.
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 ^ All religious worldview, including atheism contradict each other in what they say.
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 The following is a basic, structured list of the central works of Jewish practice and thought. .For more detail, see Rabbinic literature.^ (For more detailed accounts of this form of science see Michael Shermer's work on evolution in "Why Darwin Matters."
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Jewish legal literature

Main article: Halakha
.The basis of Jewish law and tradition (halakha) is the Torah (also known as the Pentateuch or the Five Books of Moses).^ The Jewish Scriptures comprised the Pentateuch, the first five books of the law - Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy - the Psalms and the Prophets.
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 According to rabbinic tradition there are 613 commandments in the Torah. Some of these laws are directed only to men or to women, some only to the ancient priestly groups, the Kohanim and Leviyim (members of the tribe of Levi), some only to farmers within the Land of Israel. .Many laws were only applicable when the Temple in Jerusalem existed, and fewer than 300 of these commandments are still applicable today.^ On another subject, having read through more than half of these posts, I see only two from believers.
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 ^ These laws would include the Ten Commandments and the 613 Mosaic laws also.
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 ^ In many parts of the world these issues are still seen as immoral.
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.While there have been Jewish groups whose beliefs were claimed to be based on the written text of the Torah alone (e.g., the Sadducees, and the Karaites), most Jews believed in what they call the oral law.^ It comes from the fact that there is nothing to base my belief on so I believe not to believe.
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 ^ There again, whose and why are they right?
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 ^ I intentionally used purpose and not reason because most atheists, including myself, believe that there are reasons for people being here.
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 .These oral traditions were transmitted by the Pharisee sect of ancient Judaism, and were later recorded in written form and expanded upon by the rabbis.^ Considered as literature, the best scriptures about the gods are clearly those about the gods and goddesses of Ancient Greece, later translated to Rome, and written about by masters from Homer to Ovid.
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Rabbinic Judaism (which derives from the Pharisees) has always held that the books of the Torah (called the written law) have always been transmitted in parallel with an oral tradition. .To justify this viewpoint, Jews point to the text of the Torah, where many words are left undefined, and many procedures mentioned without explanation or instructions; this, they argue, means that the reader is assumed to be familiar with the details from other, i.e., oral, sources.^ Kripke says names are rigid designators, by which he means they refer to the things they point to independently of the properties of those things.
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 ^ In other words, according to Vedic philosophy, every physical reality has a psychological aspect, and both the psychological and physical realms have an underlying reality that is the source of both other realms–¬–spiritual reality.
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 ^ Because when one subscribes to any one religion, they are forced to accept, and find rational explanations for, some of the most irrational, nay abominable, words ever written by humans.
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 This parallel set of material was originally transmitted orally, and came to be known as "the oral law".
By the time of Rabbi Judah haNasi (200 CE), after the destruction of Jerusalem, much of this material was edited together into the Mishnah. .Over the next four centuries this law underwent discussion and debate in both of the world's major Jewish communities (in Israel and Babylonia), and the commentaries on the Mishnah from each of these communities eventually came to be edited together into compilations known as the two Talmuds.^ "Therefore, when Christ Jesus came into the world, He said: 'Sacrifices and offerings You did not desire, but a body You prepared for Me..."
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 ^ You see, our positions are contrary, and logically it is not possible for two contrary positions in the real world to both be true at the same time and in the same sense.
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 ^ Children the world over are indoctrinated into one or another supernatural 'faith' system,depending on where they are born,and what religion their parents and community believe in.
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 These have been expounded by commentaries of various Torah scholars during the ages.
.Halakha, the rabbinic Jewish way of life, then, is based on a combined reading of the Torah, and the oral tradition - the Mishnah, the halakhic Midrash, the Talmud and its commentaries.^ Christianity is based on the Jewish Scriptures of the promised Messiah, not pagan tradition.
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 ^ No, the Bible is "to be taken" any way we choose, although of course the interesting readings are those based on some understanding of the authors' apparent intentions.
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 The Halakha has developed slowly, through a precedent-based system. .The literature of questions to rabbis, and their considered answers, is referred to as responsa (in Hebrew, Sheelot U-Teshuvot.^ You said: “I noticed that you did not answer my question about the different kinds of love that you referred to.” .
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 ^ What do you suppose Dan Dennet was referring to by "large questions for which we really don’t have good answers yet"?
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 ^ I noticed that you did not answer my question about the different kinds of love that you referred to.
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 ) Over time, as practices develop, codes of Jewish law are written that are based on the responsa; the most important code, the Shulchan Aruch, largely determines Orthodox religious practice today.

Jewish philosophy

Main article: Jewish philosophy
Jewish philosophy refers to the conjunction between serious study of philosophy and Jewish theology. Major Jewish philosophers include Solomon ibn Gabirol, Saadia Gaon, Maimonides, and Gersonides. Major changes occurred in response to the Enlightenment (late 1700s to early 1800s) leading to the post-Enlightenment Jewish philosophers. .Modern Jewish philosophy consists of both Orthodox and non-Orthodox oriented philosophy.^ But as they contend with apathy and disinterest among non-religious types, they are also taking some heat from both established humanists and emerging youth-oriented groups.
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 Notable among Orthodox Jewish philosophers are Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler, Joseph B. Soloveitchik, and Yitzchok Hutner. Well-known non-Orthodox Jewish philosophers include Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, Mordecai Kaplan, Abraham Joshua Heschel, and Emmanuel Lévinas.
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Jewish identity

Origin of the term "Judaism"

.The earliest known instance of the term used to mean "the profession or practice of the Jewish religion; the religious system or polity of the Jews," is Robert Fabyan's The newe cronycles of Englande and of Fraunce a 1513.^ Peter, the historic greatness of Western civilization was to use Greek mathematics and philosophy to balance Jewish religion.
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 ^ The racism analogy falls flat as there was a term for those fighting against racism, one which the opposing side used as a slur, misrepresenting its meaning.
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 ^ Just because a religion proclaims good moral values does not mean that they actually practice them.
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 As an English translation of the Latin, the first instance in English is a 1611 translation of the Apocrypha, 2 Macc. ii. 21 "Those that behaved themselues manfully to their honour for Iudaisme."[37]

Distinction between Jews as a people and Judaism

.According to Daniel Boyarin, the underlying distinction between religion and ethnicity is foreign to Judaism itself, and is one form of the dualism between spirit and flesh that has its origin in Platonic philosophy and that permeated Hellenistic Judaism.^ You are the one making distinctions between man and ape.
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 ^ In other words, according to Vedic philosophy, every physical reality has a psychological aspect, and both the psychological and physical realms have an underlying reality that is the source of both other realms–¬–spiritual reality.
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 ^ I can not see any necessary relation between the "I" in "I think, therefore I am" and the "I" in your Soul Theory or the Soul Theory of religion, which seem to me to be one and the same with different naming conventions.
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 [38] .Consequently, in his view, Judaism does not fit easily into conventional Western categories, such as religion, ethnicity, or culture.^ On the other hand, if one claims to be uncertain and that the consequences of actions are unknown, the person is making a claim of certainty about uncertainty, one, and, two, how does one advance, holding consistently to such a view?
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 ^ "For the most part religion is man's attempt at knowing God in which he/she invents a god that is suitable to his/her view of life based on earning the favor of that god by what he/she does."
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 ^ So to talk about religion is to talk about our views of ourselves, our understanding of our ancestors, and our love of our culture.

 .Boyarin suggests that this in part reflects the fact that much of Judaism's 4,000-year history predates the rise of Western culture and occurred outside the West (that is, Europe, particularly medieval and modern Europe).^ The first and only life form in the billions of years history of life on this planet that can imagine the likelihood of other life forms existing elsewhere in the universe, or even outside of our universe.
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 ^ But we can agree that it is a core document to help us understand the course of Western history for the last two thousand years, together with the works of Plato, Aristotle and Euclid.
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 ^ I see this reflected in the fact that to make the bible work you are forced to reference nearly every part of it to complicated and convoluted (and mostly outdated) interpretations and opinions outside the bible.
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 .During this time, Jews have experienced slavery, anarchic and theocratic self-government, conquest, occupation, and exile; in the Diasporas, they have been in contact with and have been influenced by ancient Egyptian, Babylonian, Persian, and Hellenic cultures, as well as modern movements such as the Enlightenment (see Haskalah) and the rise of nationalism, which would bear fruit in the form of a Jewish state in the Levant.^ I see such teachings as a form of wisdom.
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 ^ Psychic states that tend to cause such dilation or such a sense of the soul expanding are numerous and have numerous labels, which typically have a religious cast (since they are not well understood states).
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 ^ I do think a fully enlightened being (a Buddha) is said to transcend space/time in certain ways, though it could be that they can see it, not necessarily be in the past/future/etc.
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 .They also saw an elite convert to Judaism (the Khazars), only to disappear as the centers of power in the lands once occupied by that elite fell to the people of Rus and then the Mongols.^ "As he thus saw things, only by invoking his own magic powers could other men be brought into the transcendental company.
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 ^ A person can only make this promise if they believe that they have the supernatural power to love at will.
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 ^ With respect dear sister, I can't convert, only God can and if one is a Christian they are already converted by His grace, but they need to rightly discern His Word, otherwise they are in error.
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 .Thus, Boyarin has argued that "Jewishness disrupts the very categories of identity, because it is not national, not genealogical, not religious, but all of these, in dialectical tension."^ These false religious teachers were refuted by the very words of Scripture itself.
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 ^ The Jewish religious way of life did not have all its origins from here below; the greater number and the more solemn things came from heaven above.
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 ^ YOU: "Theists are the ones who made-up answers to all of these questions because they have a fear of living with these questions unanswered.
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.In contrast to this point of view, practices such as Humanistic Judaism reject the religious aspects of Judaism, while retaining certain cultural traditions.^ Of course, I'm practicing in the West, but still, I think Buddhists in general view the religious/ceremonial aspects more as symbolic and inspirational and less as absolute and literal.
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 ^ Despite his fundamentalist upbringing, he spent many years trying to explain that experience from a scientific point of view rather than label it a religious experience.
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 ^ For a person, such as you, who thrives on facts, insists on facts and uses facts incessantly to defend his own point of view, he ought to consider them as well, when others use them to argue their points.
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What makes a person Jewish?

Main article: Who is a Jew?
According to traditional Jewish Law, a Jew is anyone born of a Jewish mother or converted to Judaism in accord with Jewish Law. .American Reform Judaism and British Liberal Judaism accept the child of one Jewish parent (father or mother) as Jewish if the parents raise the child with a Jewish identity.^ "No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day."
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 ^ YOU: "One of the most positive phenomenons in a child's life is a strong, committed marriage between her mother and father" .
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 ^ One of the most positive phenomenons in a child's life is a strong, committed marriage between her mother and father.
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 All mainstream forms of Judaism today are open to sincere converts, although conversion has traditionally been discouraged. The conversion process is evaluated by an authority, and the convert is examined on his or her sincerity and knowledge.[40] Converts are given the name "ben Abraham" or "bat Abraham", (son or daughter of Abraham).
Traditional Judaism maintains that a Jew, whether by birth or conversion, is a Jew forever. .Thus a Jew who claims to be an atheist or converts to another religion is still considered by traditional Judaism to be Jewish.^ Many consider them descended from Jews who were exiled to Egypt, as they came to India from Egypt and Persia.
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 ^ And still another called the Jews "an untamed calf".
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 ^ As married atheists why would two people who question and shun religion, God and the Bible in all other aspects of our lives, not question and shun it in our marriage?
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 .However, the Reform movement maintains that a Jew who has converted to another religion is no longer a Jew,[41][42] and the Israeli Government has also taken that stance after Supreme Court cases and statutes.^ I am no longer "bonded" to any religions.
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 ^ When I recently quoted Ryan, another blogger on this site who commented that Sam was probably the only person he agreed with completely, it was not intended to be taken literally.
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 ^ I know no Indian male who would not have problems if his wife flirted with another man.
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.The question of what determines Jewish identity in the State of Israel was given new impetus when, in the 1950s, David Ben-Gurion requested opinions on mihu Yehudi ("who is a Jew") from Jewish religious authorities and intellectuals worldwide in order to settle citizenship questions.^ In this you are stating that anyone who has a different opinion or disagrees with anything Sam says or does is wrong and you want no association with people like that.
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 ^ Determinism often has religious connotations and that was the context I used when I originally answered your question.
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 ^ "Determinism often has religious connotations and that was the context I used when I originally answered your question."
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 This is still not settled, and occasionally resurfaces in Israeli politics.

Jewish demographics

Main article: Jewish population
.The total number of Jews worldwide is difficult to assess because the definition of "who is a Jew" is problematic; not all Jews identify themselves as Jewish, and some who identify as Jewish are not considered so by other Jews.^ Many consider them descended from Jews who were exiled to Egypt, as they came to India from Egypt and Persia.
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 ^ Regardless of all these feelings, I do not like or admire Israel's policies in recent years at all and I do not consider it anti-semitic or anti-Jewish to say that.
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 ^ Similarly, we might say that all those who incarnate Christ consciousness (CC) are the same person, deep down, modulo some kind of equivalence.
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 .According to the Jewish Year Book (1901), the global Jewish population in 1900 was around 11 million.^ You: "Peter, are you willing to accept that global warming is bogus because it is based on interpretive data from 1/2 million years ago?
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 ^ Peter, are you willing to accept that global warming is bogus because it is based on interpretive data from 1/2 million years ago?
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 ^ Your magic ingredient is time, millions and billions of years in which there was supposedly no mind around to witness the birth of mind.
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 .The latest available data is from the World Jewish Population Survey of 2002 and the Jewish Year Calendar (2005).^ Our population world-wide has doubled in about 30 years and will double again by 2050.
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 .In 2002, according to the Jewish Population Survey, there were 13.3 million Jews around the world.^ Your magic ingredient is time, millions and billions of years in which there was supposedly no mind around to witness the birth of mind.
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 ^ Timmy says: And yes, while the population boom is worst in the third world, even in the western world, we still make too many babies for the amount of resources there are on the planet.
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 ^ Furthermore, a few white Jews have proven that there is a divine White Light among Jewish people that exist beneath the lust and greed that is commonly associated with the white Jews by so many.

 The Jewish Year Calendar cites 14.6 million. .Jewish population growth is currently near zero percent, with 0.3% growth from 2000 to 2001. Intermarriage and the declining birthrate have influenced Jewish population figures, although conversion to Judaism may help to offset this slightly.^ Percentages may be printed as '0.00%' because of space limitations, but some are slightly greater than zero.
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 ^ Among those nationalist movements were, of course, Zionism (based on both existing and immigrant Jewish populations in the area and on an ancient claim to the land) and Palestinians (based on a current population in the area).
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 ^ But the Jewish population of Germany (even after the Anschluß with Austria) was minuscule: less than 1 percent, perhaps 300,000-500,000 if I'm remembering the statistics correctly.
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 [citation needed]
It has been noted by some writers that the apparent prominence of Jews is disproportionate to the size of their population. One example, Mark Twain comments:
.If statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race.^ The Bible has always taught that humans were created in the image and likeness of their Creator and therefore we are of one race, of one kind.
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 It suggests a nebulous dim puff of stardust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly, the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of. .He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk.^ Most of what people say will go in one ear and out the other.
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 ^ In fact, he’ll see no ‘others’, no enemies, no evil nations or people to be wiped out altogether--- he’ll have transcended all limitations of time and space etc..
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 .His contributions to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers.^ Science is the perfect tool to "measure and quantify" not only music and other arts but also religion because science just is the business of measuring and quantifying natural phenomena in all their variety.
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 ^ Scientists already get very involved with music via the science of acoustics and with visual art via computer graphics.
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 ^ Science doesn’t try to explain or measure music or any other form of art by its standard.
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 .He has made a marvelous fight in this world, in all the ages; and had done it with his hands tied behind him.^ All that relates to or affects the life of a person: He saw his world collapse about him.
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 ^ "The LORD Almighty has sworn, 'Surely, as I have planned, so it will be, and as I have purposed, so will it stand...This is the plan determined for the whole world; this is the hand stretched out over all nations.
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 ^ You on the other hand asked no questions and made nothing but statements of belief quoting the book that your belief was "set down in" once and for all.
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 He could be vain of himself, and be excused for it. .The Egyptian, the Babylonian, and the Persian rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, then faded to dream-stuff and passed away; the Greek and the Roman followed; and made a vast noise, and they are gone; other people have sprung up and held their torch high for a time, but it burned out, and they sit in twilight now, or have vanished.^ Here you are telling other people what they should do with their time.
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 ^ You are telling other people what they should be doing with their time.
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 ^ "They seem to believe that you can argue people out of religion."
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 .The Jew saw them all, beat them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence, no infirmities of age, no weakening of his parts, no slowing of his energies, no dulling of his alert and aggressive mind.^ After all no one would ever think of taking harmless musings of god and mind powers and turn them in to a religion(s), would they?
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 ^ "Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure that you also believe that all of this (the universe) has no beginning point, but rather it has just always been.
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 ^ Survival of all living creatures up until now has always been about how many kids you can breed.
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 .All things are mortal but the Jew; all other forces pass, but he remains.^ A discussion spurred on by mention of my atheist world view provides an opportunity for me to discuss my rational approach to all the other things.
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 ^ He ordained that all things would come to pass according to His wisdom and glory, but sin precedes from men, not from God.
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 ^ All the other explanations cannot make sense of these things."
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 What is the secret of his immortality?[44]

Jewish religious movements

Main article: Jewish religious movements
Hasidic Jews wearing black frock coats and fur shtreimels.
.In the late Middle Ages, when Europe and western Asia were divided into Christian and Islamic countries, the Jewish people also found themselves divided into two main groups.^ Bernie you wrote, “Talk about the UK and USA being two countries divided by a common language!
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 ^ Now, if only I could get people, who are actually abstract deists, to stop referring to themselves as Christians, then we'd really be getting somewhere.
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 ^ YOU: "It is not solely the Islamic groups who are "radical" as we have our own home grown Christian fundamentalists here in the West with a demented and nefarious view of the world."
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 .Jews in Central and Eastern Europe, namely in Germany and Poland, were called Ashkenazi.^ For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile - the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on Him, for, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."
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 Sephardic Jews can trace their tradition back to the Mediterranean countries, particularly Spain and Portugal under Muslim rule. When they were expelled in 1492, they settled in North Africa, the eastern Mediterranean, the Far East, and northern Europe. .The two traditions differ in a number of ritual and cultural details, but their theology and basic Jewish practice are the same.^ PH4(a) I believe it is something that is known already, that two rocks taken from the same sample of ground can have dates that differ by huge amounts.
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 ^ So to recap the difference between these two things that Gad says are the same.
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 ^ Two rocks taken from the same sample of ground can have dates that differ by huge amounts.
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.Over the past two centuries the Ashkenazi Jewish community has divided into a number of Jewish religious movements; each has a different understanding of what principles of belief a Jew should hold, (although belief plays a lesser role than practice and observance in Judaism) and how one should live as a Jew.^ So I understand criticizing people's religious beliefs.
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 ^ I understand you see this differently than I do.
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 ^ "Then how can you be sure you are on the right path, that evolutionary science can hold these answers, that the Christian worldview is the one that is wrong?
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 .To some degree, these doctrinal differences have created schisms between the Jewish movements.^ There is a difference between wisdom and knowledge and I will grant that you, Timmy, Bernie and Andy have a great deal of knowledge, but wisdom comes with the fear of the Lord, of recognizing who He is and that He has created you.
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 ^ It is a religious doctrine ---- a vast difference between the two.
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 ^ So to recap the difference between these two things that Gad says are the same.
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 Nonetheless, there is some level of Jewish unity. .For example, it would not be unusual for a Conservative Jew to attend either an Orthodox or Reform synagogue.^ Iowans have little exposure to secular or reform/conservative Jews; they've only ever heard of Lubavitchers and other Orthodox jews who are indeed mysterious and out of the mainstream.
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 ^ Potok is a co-editor of Etz Hayim, a new Torah and commentary published by the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, which represents 1.5 million Conservative Jews.

 .The article on Relationships between Jewish religious movements discusses how different Jewish movements view each other.^ Please explain how their view on this differs."
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 ^ Please explain how their view on this differs.
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 ^ The relationship between a human woman and human man, in romantic embrace, is a lot different than the relationship between a lion and a gazelle in violent conflict.
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 .Many non-Ashkenazi Jews, especially in the United States, are members of congregations affiliated with the various movements, although they may not specifically identify themselves as members of that movement.^ So although atheists may act in many ways more morally than a Christian or adherent of some religion, they have no means of accounting for that morality.
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 ^ When someone states they are an atheist they are being more specific than if he were to say I'm a humanist.
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 ^ Of course, we may well wonder whether as many people believe these things as say they do.
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 They frequently do so out of convenience, and are likely to describe their religious practice as "traditional" or "observant", as opposed to "Orthodox" or "Conservative".
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  • Orthodox Judaism holds that both the Written and Oral Torah were divinely revealed to Moses, and that the laws within it are binding and unchanging.^ So the moral law is written on the heart of every man, whether he suppresses that law or not, and since the Fall he has known both what good and evil is.
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     ^ "He said to them, "...Everything must be fulfilled that is written about Me in the LAW of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms."
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     .Orthodox Jews generally consider commentaries on the Shulchan Aruch (a condensed codification of halakha that largely favored Sephardic traditions) such as the Moses Isserlis's HaMappah and the Mishnah Berurah, to be the definitive codification of Jewish law, and assert a continuity between the Judaism of the Temple in Jerusalem, pre-Enlightenment Rabbinic Judaism, and modern-day Orthodox Judaism.^ There is a direct historical continuity between the romantic tradition and the new paradigm in science of Fritjof Capra and others.
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     ^ A tradition of celebrating a gene line, such as the Jewish line in the Old Testament, can hardly fail to be divisive and draw flak from the neighbors.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Timmy, consider yourself told, just as the Jews in Paul's day were told.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     .Most of Orthodox Judaism holds to one particular form of Jewish theology, based on Maimonides' 13 principles of Jewish faith.^ But it is the faulty beliefs one holds about how justified his particular war is that gets humans rationalizing about the justification of going to war in the first place.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ There are people who say "I believe in God" simply because it is the most acceptable position to hold in their particular community.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ No one holds jurisdiction over a complete set of truths and we all understand there is gray intermingled in even the most black and white situation.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     Orthodox Judaism broadly (and informally) shades into two main styles, Modern Orthodox Judaism and Haredi Judaism. .The philosophical distinction is generally around accommodation to modernity and weight placed on non-Jewish disciplines, though in practical terms the differences are often reflected in styles of dress and rigor in practice.^ Alternative medicine is a generic term used to describe any other approach that employs principles and methods that are different from those of orthodox medicine.

     ^ Abstract This paper provides a philosophical assessment of two institutions and their practices: the institution of traditional medicine and the ethical issues generated by its practice; and, the institution of contemporary African philosophy and the relevance of its practice to African societies.

     ^ The words sexual immorality is termed fornications in some Bibles and is different from adultery in that adultery is something practiced while married whereas fornication is applied to those who are single.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     .According to most Orthodox Jews, Jewish people who do not keep the laws of Shabbat and Yom Tov (the holidays), kashrut, and family purity are considered non-religious.^ But MOST people who get married are not so lucky.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ GAD: "First of all, not all the wishful thinking of the religious nor the most advanced science has yet to provide a single shred of evidence for the "non-material" in this "material universe".
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ God has put governments in place to keep in check people becoming a law unto themselves.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     .Any Jew who keeps at least those laws would be considered observant and religious.^ Many consider them descended from Jews who were exiled to Egypt, as they came to India from Egypt and Persia.
    • Joshua Project - Banjara, Hindu of India Ethnic People Profile 11 January 2010 23:23 UTC www.joshuaproject.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     ^ Should a political group be formed by those who feel that the world needs to wake up from this long religious nightmare?
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ We are in need of absolute morals (in the form of laws) that protect innocent people from harm, especially harm from those in power, unleashed technologies, and/or ignoble and errant religious beliefs.
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     .
    • Modern Orthodox Judaism emphasizes strict observance of religious laws and commandments but with a broad, liberal approach to modernity and living in a non-Jewish or secular environment.^ The debate about Christian America is whether the government has the right to establish a religion or laws that promote religious beliefs (such as the 10 commandments or prayer in schools.
      • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
      • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

       ^ Do you think the Ten Commandments which forms the corner stone of Judaism is a bad set of laws?
      • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
      • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

       ^ God has said what is right and wrong in the Ten Commandments, and for Israel, the 613 Mosaic Laws that were imposed by God and in which many secular laws are derived unknowingly.
      • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
      • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

       Modern Orthodox women are gradually assuming a greater role in Jewish ritual practice, which is not acceptable in the Haredi community.
    • Haredi Judaism (also known as "ultra-Orthodox Judaism", although some find this term offensive) is a very conservative form of Judaism. .The Haredi world revolves around study, prayer and meticulous religious observance.^ What should surprise you most is that throughout human history millions of people around the world have had similar experiences as a result of prayer and belief in God.
      • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
      • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

       .Some Haredi Jews are more open to the modern world, perhaps most notably the Lubavitch Hasidim, but their acceptance of modernity is more a tool for enhancing Jewish faith than an end in itself.^ All I am really, is someone who is open to the possibility that human ancestors may have moved through water sufficiently more than our ape cousins to have caused some phenotypic change in our lineage.
      • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
      • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

       ^ Finally a quote from Tennyson: "There is more faith in honest doubt than in half the creeds I do believe."
      • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
      • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

       ^ Me: "I will agree there is some "delusion" in marriage but overall marriage is more problematic than delusional" .
      • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
      • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
      • Hasidic Judaism is a stream of Haredi Judaism based on the teachings of Rabbi Yisroel ben Eliezer (The Ba'al Shem Tov). .Hasidic philosophy is rooted in the Kabbalah, and Hasidic Jews accept the Kabbalah as sacred scripture.^ Christians share the same Scripture as the Jews, even if the Jews do not accept Jesus Christ as the promised Messiah of their Scripture.
        • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
        • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

         .They are distinguished both by a variety of special customs and practices including reliance on a Rebbe or supreme religious leader, and a special dress code particular to each Hasidic group.
  • Conservative Judaism, known as Masorti Judaism outside of the United States and Canada, was founded in Europe and the United States in the 1800s by rabbis and scholars who were disaffected from either Reform or Orthodox Judaism as adequate responses to the Enlightenment.^ Both Sam and LindaJean adamantly separate meditation from any religious doctrines, which they clearly despise.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Truth criteria for our statements are more reliable the more solidly they are rooted in objective tests and public standards agreed by suitably distinguished experts.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ And to some significant degree, the cause of that is the violent anti-communist and red-hating Western capitalist powers, including the United States of America.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     .It is characterized by a commitment to following traditional Jewish laws and customs, including observance of Shabbat and kashrut, a deliberately non-fundamentalist teaching of Jewish principles of faith, a positive attitude toward modern culture, and an acceptance of both traditional rabbinic modes of study along with modern scholarship and critical text study when considering Jewish religious texts.^ These things do not following the teachings of the faith.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Should this group consider part of it's mission to hold a position against the interest in, and experimentation with, things like non-religious non-supernatural meditation?
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Positively the principle may be expressed: In matters of the intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard to any other consideration.
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     .Conservative Judaism teaches that Jewish law is not static, but has always developed in response to changing conditions.^ Marx proposed that the material universe is not static but dynamic, containing within itself the power of motion, change, and development.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
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     ^ To avoid that conclusion, Marx proposed that the materail universe is not static but dynamic, containing within itself the power of motion, change, and development.
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     ^ He is still man as he always has been, just the nature of his spiritual condition before God has changed.
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     .It holds that the Torah is a divine document written by prophets inspired by God and reflecting his will, but rejects the Orthodox position that it was dictated by God to Moses.^ Contrast these blunders in the Qur'an (Koran) showing this book is not inspired by God with this example of something really divinely inspired and accurate from the Jewish/Christian Bible: .
    • True History of Islam, Mohammed and the Koran 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC bibleprobe.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ The uninspired Qur'an The Jewish and Christian Bibles were written by "inspired men of God" who immediately committed God's Word to writing.
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     ^ The Enuma elish and other folk lore was written after the Genesis accounts which were handed down from generation to generation and became Scripture when God told Moses to write them down."
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     [45][46] Similarly, Conservative Judaism holds that Judaism's Oral Law is divine and normative, but rejects some Orthodox interpretations of the Oral Law. .Accordingly, Conservative Judaism holds that both the Written and Oral Law may be interpreted by the rabbis to reflect modern sensibilities and suit modern conditions, although great caution should be exercised in doing so.^ "We think we have a book that is not only reflective of the theology but helps to challenge people," said Rabbi Jerome Epstein, executive vice president of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism.

     ^ If you haven't, you really should, it's a great movie with Bill Murray and Scarlet Johansson, written and directed by Sofia Coppola.
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ So the moral law is written on the heart of every man, whether he suppresses that law or not, and since the Fall he has known both what good and evil is.
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     .There is no absolute uniformity within Conservative Judaism and the communities that retain more traditional practices are sometimes called Conservadox.
  • Reform Judaism, called Liberal or Progressive in many countries, originally formed in Germany in response to the Enlightenment.^ That is what I mean when I say there are no absolutes.
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     ^ There are many more examples but no more time.
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     ^ There are many forms of Buddhist meditation.
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     .(Note that in the United Kingdom, there are two distinct congregational unions, Reform and Liberal.^ There you go, two neocon republican jews, two liberal/progressive (what's the label today?
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     ^ The Reformation prospered in Geneva; many of those religious scholars who fled the reign of Mary Tudor (Bloody Mary) started a congregation there.

     ^ Perhaps I need to make this distinction again: There are two aspects to what I've discussed in all these posts: 1) emptiness theory and 2) a direct experience of emptiness leading to enlightenment.
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     .The former is significantly more traditional than the latter, but both hold to similar theoretical positions.^ The position that I hold is far more complex than the crude summary above.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
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     ^ These other "brands" of worldviews are significantly less probematic than "atheist" because they state a positive content, a set of "beliefs", values etc.
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     ^ We who eschew magic and myth for reason and evidence do need a different banner than "Atheist," and all of us concerned for our future would benefit from more of the latter, and less of the former.
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ) .Its defining characteristic with respect to the other movements is its rejection of the binding nature of Jewish ceremonial law as such and belief instead that individual Jews should exercise an informed autonomy about what to observe.^ For example, neither the form of sacrifice, nor of the holocaust, nor the binding force of the Law, nor any other aspect of their old commonwealth and way of life can stand.
    • Medieval Sourcebook: Saint John Chrysostom: Eight Homilies Against the Jews 28 January 2010 0:10 UTC www.fordham.edu [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Should Jews be more afraid than others?
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     ^ And so it pays homage to the truth that the principle underlying all Nature's operations is the aristocratic principle and it believes that this law holds good even down to the last individual organism.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     .Reform Judaism initially defined Judaism as a religion, rather than as a race or culture, rejected most of the ritual ceremonial laws of the Torah while observing moral laws, and emphasized the ethical call of the Prophets.^ I am not calling for a law against marriage, any more than you are calling for a law against religion.
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ I, too, have called myself an atheist but always felt it fell short of what I wanted to say and, frankly, engaged the religious on their terms rather than my own.
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Harris' article strikes me as a rejection of the mortal applications regarding religious faiths rather than the religions themselves.
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     .Reform Judaism developed an egalitarian prayer service in the vernacular (along with Hebrew in many cases) and emphasized personal connection to Jewish tradition over specific forms of observance.^ He drifted into Detroit at a time when many African-Americans were beginning to form racial identity groups around charismatic personalities such as Marcus Garvey.
    • True History of Islam, Mohammed and the Koran 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC bibleprobe.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ By thus bonding themselves deliberately and emotionally into this tradition, they are transcending their personal selves and developing affective bonds to the generations, which is to say to the species.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ The Soul Chakra connecting with one to twenty Soul Personalities and many ego-Sub-Personalities which need to be integrated with the soul .
    • The Kundalini Kriyass of Kriya Yoga!! Energy Enhancement Meditation Course Level 1 14 January 2010 9:19 UTC www.energyenhancement.org [Source type: General]

     Today, many Reform congregations encourage the study of Hebrew and traditional observances, while a smaller number continue to espouse the liberal ethos of the classical reformers of the nineteenth century.
.
A Reform synagogue with mixed seating and equal participation of men and women
  • Reconstructionist Judaism started as a stream of philosophy by Rabbi Mordechai Kaplan, originally an Orthodox rabbi who had come to teach at the Conservative Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and later became an independent movement emphasizing reinterpreting Judaism for modern times.^ Among Western Buddhists, there are college-educated men and women who apparently believe that Guru Rinpoche was actually born from a lotus.
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     ^ God has always put equal value on both men and women, He just gave each of us different functions, roles and abilities.
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     ^ Some of the clearest teachings come from the Reformers that pointed to the Lord Jesus Christ and what He has done.
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     .Like Reform Judaism, Reconstructionist Judaism does not hold that Jewish law, as such, requires observance, but unlike Reform, Reconstructionist thought emphasizes the role of the community in deciding what observances to follow.
  • Jewish Renewal, a recent North American movement, was begun by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, a Hassidic rabbi, in the 1960s.^ YOU: "Well Peter it would be impossible to follow a set of laws perfectly, if one does not understand the set of laws perfectly."
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     ^ Torture and barbarous actions come when mankind does not follow God's laws and decrees.
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ LJ: “If you mean that absolute authority requires a person to follow all of God’s laws (there are so many and they are so contrary),” .
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     .Jewish Renewal focuses on spirituality and social justice, but does not address issues of Jewish law.^ The Bible does not address many of today's issues directly.
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ YOU: "The Bible does not address many of today's issues directly.
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     .Men and women participate equally in prayer.
  • Humanistic Judaism.^ God has always put equal value on both men and women, He just gave each of us different functions, roles and abilities.
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     .A small nontheistic movement that emphasizes Jewish culture and history as the sources of Jewish identity.^ And since the Bible is essentially Jewish tribal history, let Jews take the lead in judging its cultural relevance.
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     Founded by Rabbi Sherwin Wine, it is centered in North America and Israel but also has affiliated groups in Europe and Latin America.

Jewish movements in Israel

Main article: Religion in Israel
.Even though all of these movements exist in Israel, Israelis tend to classify Jewish identity in ways that are different than diaspora Jewry.^ And I am smarter than your average bear, even though it may not seem so from your perspective.
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 ^ That we are completely unaware that the only reason we behave the way we do is because we are copying god morals even though we don't believe in him?
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 ^ So you just phrase your belief in a way that isnt assertive, even though behaviorally and psychologically it is the same.
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 .Most Jewish Israelis classify themselves as "secular" (hiloni), "traditional" (masorti), "religious" (dati) or Haredi.^ "Many scientists see themselves as having a spirituality not attached to a particular religious tradition.
  • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
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 .The term "secular" is more popular as a self-description among Israeli families of western (European) origin, whose Jewish identity may be a very powerful force in their lives, but who see it as largely independent of traditional religious belief and practice.^ I found it to be a deep and poignant question and very difficult to contemplate’ As who wouldn’t Gad, since the proposition is about the most powerful ever put forward on the question of evil.
  • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
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 ^ Of course, I'm practicing in the West, but still, I think Buddhists in general view the religious/ceremonial aspects more as symbolic and inspirational and less as absolute and literal.
  • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
  • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ But while it may grab a few headlines, some quiet work in the trenches may achieve alot more, even though it may feel less righteous and powerful.
  • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
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 .This portion of the population largely ignores organized religious life, be it of the official Israeli rabbinate (Orthodox) or of the liberal movements common to diaspora Judaism (Reform, Conservative).^ It is in our best interest to behave morally because morality and ethics greatly increases quality of life for large populations of people.
  • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
  • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Studying the life of Muhammad shows he was influenced by a number of religious teachings; Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity and the local pagan deity of the half moon.
  • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
  • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Studying the life of Muhammad shows he was influenced by a number of religious teachings; Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity and the local pagan deity of the half moon."
  • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
  • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
.The term "traditional" (masorti) is most common as a self-description among Israeli families of "eastern" origin (i.e., the Middle East, Central Asia, and North Africa).^ BTW "which you term as "glassing ---you probably mean gassing" No glassing is the term I meant, it's what happens when a nuclear bomb fuses sand (as in a desert as in the middle east) into glass i.e.
  • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
  • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Much anti-semitic propaganda in the Middle East is of European origin...
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 ^ Next to the Islamic countries of the middle east, it is the most religious country in the the world.
  • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
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 .This term, as commonly used, has nothing to do with the official Masorti (Conservative) movement.^ The term tells us nothing about their behavior or the history/meaning of the civil rights movement.
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 ^ While the term may have been used in certain circumstances, for example, among the people working in the movement as a way to describe themselves, I question that it was used in the mainstream culture and media as a way of describing the movement.
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 ^ Are you suggesting the term "non-racists" was used during the civil rights movement (CRM) as a label for those who were active in eliminating racism and working in the movement?
  • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
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.There is a great deal of ambiguity in the ways "secular" and "traditional" are used in Israel.^ There is a difference between wisdom and knowledge and I will grant that you, Timmy, Bernie and Andy have a great deal of knowledge, but wisdom comes with the fear of the Lord, of recognizing who He is and that He has created you.
  • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
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 ^ My points here are about using baby steps to unbrainwash, as opposed to being deluded into thinking that there is any other way.
  • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
  • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Almost every great scientific discovery ever has come from someone's imaginative, way out there, "what if".
  • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
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 .They often overlap, and they cover an extremely wide range in terms of ideology and religious observance.^ That covers a wide scope of behaviors and is often extremely hard to do.
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 ^ This is a good example of how religious people often don't even understand or follow what they say they believe is in the Bible.
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 ^ I also agree that the terms "god" and "religious" have a very wide range of meanings and, therefore, we should be more specific in describing religious beliefs of a person or a group.
  • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
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.The term "Orthodox" is not popular in Israeli discourse, although the percentage of Jews who come under that category in Israel is far greater than in the diaspora.^ The way you are using it, you are attacking all Israelis and any American Jew who are supportive of Israel.
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 ^ Although he had delivered a long homily against the Jews on the previous day, and had become hoarse from the length of his Sermon, he now delivered the following discourse.
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 ^ Some on the left have adopted this term as a code for talking about Jews with too much power and/or Jews who they feel have more allegiance to Israel than the USA. So, it should be easy then, to point to a reference where the left has started using this term to mean Jew.
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 Various methods of measuring this percentage, each with its pros and cons, are the proportion of religiously observant Knesset members, the proportion of Jewish children enrolled in religious schools, and statistical studies on "identity".
.What would be called "Orthodox" in the diaspora includes what is commonly called dati (religious) or haredi (ultra-Orthodox) in Israel.^ Most Christians in the Netherlands however are, what I would like to call 'inclusivists': they tend to include everything and everybody in their own group.
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 .The former term includes what is called "Religious Zionism" or the "National Religious" community, as well as what has become known over the past decade or so as haredi-leumi (nationalist haredi), or "Hardal", which combines a largely haredi lifestyle with nationalist ideology.^ Trotsky wrote as an internationalist Marxist who opposed nationalistic ideologies, including the nationalistic ideology of Zionism.
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 ^ The US (acting as a "Christian" nation) has killed 100 times the number of people than Muslim extremists have in the past decade.
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 ^ I, too, have called myself an atheist but always felt it fell short of what I wanted to say and, frankly, engaged the religious on their terms rather than my own.
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 .(Some people, in Yiddish, also refer to observant Orthodox Jews as frum, as opposed to frei (more liberal Jews)).^ "Some people are “getting off” more on the harsh, belittling criticisms than actually debating the ideas."
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 ^ Here are some more traits that, in my opinion, put people into this miniscule demographic I have called the Scarlet A's.
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  • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Some people are “getting off” more on the harsh, belittling criticisms than actually debating the ideas.
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.Haredi applies to a populace that can be roughly divided into three separate groups along both ethnic and ideological lines: (1) "Lithuanian" (non-hasidic) haredim of Ashkenazic origin; (2) Hasidic haredim of Ashkenazic origin; and (3) Sephardic haredim.^ Muslims resented the assumed "intrusion" by a non-Muslim group into a Muslim area.
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 ^ You and I are both separate persons, but we are both “humans.” The Father, Son and Holy Spirit are three Persons, but all are the One true God.
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 ^ But this woman was drunk when we ran into her, and she proceeded to -- literally -- grab my wife by the arm and drag us, along with her group, to their next destinantion...
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 .The third group is the largest, and has been the most politically active since the early 1990s.^ Compared to the United States, the number of fundamentalistic Christians is very low and most of the time fundamentalist Chrisians are not very aggressive or political active.
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 ^ MLK Jr was more aggressive (he went on marches, boycots) than any of the atheists who are politically active and I dont think most people consider MLK Jr "militant."
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 [citation needed]

Alternative Judaism

Other expressions of Jewish identity fall outside of this conservative-liberal continuum.
.Unlike the above movements, which were ideological reactions that resulted from the exposure of traditional rabbinic Judaism to the radical changes of modern times, Karaite Judaism did not begin as a modern Jewish movement.^ Time had a beginning, God did not.
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 ^ A third, more general meaning is the integral human life expressed in the world's philosophical traditions prior to modern times.
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  • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ A third, more general meaning is the integral human life expressed in the world's religious traditions prior to modern times.
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 .The followers of Karaism believe they are the remnants of the non-Rabbinic Jewish sects of the Second Temple period, such as the Sadducees, though others contend they are a sect started in the 8th and 9th centuries.^ They can only build models on how they believe it started.
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 ^ They also want to believe because their arch opponents - religious fundamentalists such as creationists - do not believe in life's spontaneous origin.
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 ^ But seriously, all this is predicated one one big assumption: that the Bible is in fact what its authors said it is and what they and countless followers sincerely believed and believe it to be.
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  • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 .The Karaites (or "Scripturalists") accept only the Hebrew Bible and what they view as the Peshat: "Plain or Simple Meaning"; and do not accept non-biblical writings as authoritative.^ Then it will be simple to convince people to stop having babies just for the sake of having babies because that is the only tradition that they know.
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 ^ Spiritual thoughts about the meaning of our imagination are not at all irrational or dangerous, nor do they need to be viewed as supernatural.
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 ^ Arab contact with Black Africa was for one purpose only, plain and simple.
  • True History of Islam, Mohammed and the Koran 28 January 2010 0:00 UTC bibleprobe.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Some European Karaites do not see themselves as part of the Jewish community, while most do.^ Some scientists who don't believe in God see themselves as very spiritual people.
  • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
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 ^ I am Jewish, and most Jews don't see any serious risk and are not unleashing their "Never Again" forces.
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 ^ Although I can share most of the reasons Sam gives fornot labelling ourselves as 'atheists' I still see some more strategic reasons to do so.
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 .Nazis often did not associate Karaites with Jews, and therefore several Karaite communities were spared in WWII and exist to this day even in places such as Lithuania where Jewish communities were completely devastated.^ But even if the positive evidence did not exist, the absence of evidence would be sufficient to believe such purposes did not exist, as it would generate the same difficulties as the sadistic ghosts.
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 ^ A complete column does not exist anywhere in the world, and in some places it is the opposite of what you would expect to find.
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 ^ I wouldn't believe in him even if he did exist.
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 .In other areas, such as Greece, the Nazis deemed Karaites as belonging to a greater Jewish tradition and abused them accordingly.^ In all If poems (and other traditional Yorb genre such as Ijala and Iwi Egungun), Oldmar is gender neutral.

 ^ A tradition of celebrating a gene line, such as the Jewish line in the Old Testament, can hardly fail to be divisive and draw flak from the neighbors.
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.Another historical division among ethnic Jews are the Samaritans, who maintain a distinct cultural and religious identity from mainstream Judaism, and are located entirely around Mount Gerizim in the Nablus/Shechem region of the West Bank and in Holon, near Tel Aviv in Israel.^ If one society or culture believes that abortion is a right of the mother to choose and another believes that it is murder and the mother does not have the right to choose, who is right.
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 ^ If one's entire worldview is structured around faith, perhaps it becomes difficult to view the world through the eyes of someone else who is not faithful to some entity or ideal?
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 ^ "If one society or culture believes that abortion is a right of the mother to choose and another believes that it is murder and the mother does not have the right to choose, who is right.
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Jewish observances

Religious clothing

.A kippah (Hebrew: כִּפָּה, plural kippot; Yiddish: יאַרמלקע, yarmulke) is a slightly-rounded brimless skullcap worn by many Jewish men while praying, eating, reciting blessings, or studying Jewish religious texts, and at all times by some Jewish men.^ I need some time to digest all of this.
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 ^ They have all been answered many times.
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 ^ Well Timmy, I do not see what you do in private or how many times you have acted in a manner that even by your standard you deem is wrong, but God sees it all.
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 In non-Orthodox communities, some women have also begun to wear kippot. Kippot range in size from a small round beanie that covers only the back of the head, to a large, snug cap that covers the whole crown.
Tzitzit (Hebrew: צִיציִת) (Ashkenazi pronunciation: tzitzis) are special knotted "fringes" or "tassels" found on the four corners of the tallit (Hebrew: טַלִּית) (Ashkenazi pronunciation: tallis), or prayer shawl. .The tallit is worn by Jewish men and some Jewish women during the prayer service.^ Mature women are like aged wine and some men eventually figure it out.
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 ^ And that should go for both men and women, but there's that damned marriage thing that you are defending for some reason that makes it unfair in mens favor.
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 ^ Surah 4:11 - A woman can only inherit half of what a man can Surah 4:34 - Women cannot serve as imams, but they can't even lead a prayer in front of men.
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 Customs vary regarding when a Jew begins wearing a tallit. In the Sephardi community, boys wear a tallit from bar mitzvah age. .In some Ashkenazi communities it is customary to wear one only after marriage.^ But as satisfying as it is, I do have some concern remaining, over its efficacy, which is really the only reason of developing an atheist communication I'm personally interested in.
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 ^ Late marriages have become possible only because sex outside marriage has become the norm, at least in some cultures.
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 ^ But for the ones who have happy marriages, they have to find some other justification.
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 A tallit katan (small tallit) is a fringed garment worn under the clothing throughout the day. In some Orthodox circles, the fringes are allowed to hang freely outside the clothing.
.Tefillin (Hebrew: תְפִלִּין), known in English as phylacteries (from the Greek word φιλακτέριον, meaning fortress or protection), are two square leather boxes containing biblical verses, attached to the forehead and wound around the left arm by leather straps.^ The Hebrew word for personal killing as in the example "Thou shalt not kill" is rasah - meaning personal killing or murder.
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 ^ The word for virgin in Hebrew (betulah) can have two meanings; one being a virgin, the other a married woman (Joel 1:8).
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 .They are worn during weekday morning prayer by observant Jewish men and some Jewish women.^ But women in general have to deal with men as they are.
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 ^ To accomplish great achievements, during this time in history, men and women were gathered together by spiritual concept, or a declaration of the Word of God.

 ^ Is it honest for promiscuous men to want the women they love to be monogamous?
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A kittel (Yiddish: קיטל), a white knee-length overgarment, is worn by prayer leaders and some observant traditional Jews on the High Holidays. .It is traditional for the head of the household to wear a kittel at the Passover seder, and some grooms wear one under the wedding canopy.^ The tradition(s) that fall under the label Buddhism have one primary aspect that is the cornerstone for all the practices--there is a primary goal.
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 ^ In one of the ruined temples, there is a colossal Jaina figure thirteen feet nine inches with a canopy of two feet six inches over head which is supported by two elephants.
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 Jewish males are buried in a tallit and sometimes also a kittel which are part of the tachrichim (burial garments).

Prayers

Main article: Jewish services
A Yemenite Jew at morning prayers, wearing a kippah skullcap, prayer shawl and tefillin.
Traditionally, Jews recite prayers three times daily, with a fourth prayer added on Shabbat and holidays. At the heart of each service is the Amidah or Shemoneh Esrei. Another key prayer in many services is the declaration of faith, the Shema Yisrael (or Shema). The Shema is the recitation of a verse from the Torah (Deuteronomy 6:4): Shema Yisrael Adonai Eloheinu Adonai Echad—"Hear, O Israel! .The Lord is our God!^ Like Jesus is lord, God is powerful, there is no reason for our existence, meditation is useless.
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 ^ "Hear O Israel: The LORD our God, the Lord is one."
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 ^ Until the Lord returns our best is going to be second best because we are sinners, we sin and fall short of God's glory (and standards).
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 The Lord is One!"
Most of the prayers in a traditional Jewish service can be recited in solitary prayer, although communal prayer is preferred. Communal prayer requires a quorum of ten adult Jews, called a minyan. .In nearly all Orthodox and a few Conservative circles, only male Jews are counted toward a minyan; most Conservative Jews and members of other Jewish denominations count female Jews as well.^ If I criticize religion or stand up for homosexuality, a few might not only be upset at me for doing those things, but also because they associate their religion and their prejudice toward homosexuality with their race.
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 ^ "Was the earth not flat until it was proven, did the earth not circle the sun until every one believed it, was evolution not true until it was proved, no all these thing were true even when only a few people believed them" .
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 ^ Iowans have little exposure to secular or reform/conservative Jews; they've only ever heard of Lubavitchers and other Orthodox jews who are indeed mysterious and out of the mainstream.
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In addition to prayer services, observant traditional Jews recite prayers and benedictions throughout the day when performing various acts. .Prayers are recited upon waking up in the morning, before eating or drinking different foods, after eating a meal, and so on.^ He had perfect moral rightness and perfect physical being before God up to the point of eating the fruit.
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 ^ It's not really mine, so many before have said the same thing, and slowly and surely the world is waking up.
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The approach to prayer varies among the Jewish denominations. .Differences can include the texts of prayers, the frequency of prayer, the number of prayers recited at various religious events, the use of musical instruments and choral music, and whether prayers are recited in the traditional liturgical languages or the vernacular.^ I can feel the difference now in terms of the spiritual "feelings" I used to experience when my prayer life was strong.
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 ^ The debate about Christian America is whether the government has the right to establish a religion or laws that promote religious beliefs (such as the 10 commandments or prayer in schools.
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 ^ I think we can spend eternity disputing the numbers and we will find some variance between different surveys completed over the last few years.
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 .In general, Orthodox and Conservative congregations adhere most closely to tradition, and Reform and Reconstructionist synagogues are more likely to incorporate translations and contemporary writings in their services.^ I'm actually happy to see by the reaction to these posts that most atheists are not like the one's that I refer to, but more like me.
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 ^ You sound more like a theist than most theists I know.
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 ^ I will argue that the issues of applied ethics that arise in Yorb culture (traditional and contemporary) are by far more complex than anything ventured by most contemporary African philosophers.

 .Also, in most Conservative synagogues, and all Reform and Reconstructionist congregations, women participate in prayer services on an equal basis with men, including roles traditionally filled only by men, such as reading from the Torah.^ Since the mathematical community does not know how this all happened they can only speculate on such topics.
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 ^ The only thing that stands in my way is reality, such in ideas as evolution, so that all my know the pleasure of pleasing me such ideas must not be allowed.
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 ^ God has always put equal value on both men and women, He just gave each of us different functions, roles and abilities.
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 .In addition, many Reform temples use musical accompaniment such as organs and mixed choirs.^ If I had my druthers, those using 9/11 for partisan gain would (a) knock it the hell off (b) rescind all such gains IMMEDIATELY. Media reform now!
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Jewish holidays

Main article: Jewish holiday
.Jewish holidays are special days in the Jewish calendar, which celebrate moments in Jewish history, as well as central themes in the relationship between God and the world, such as creation, revelation, and redemption.^ God created a perfect world.
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 ^ Without acts of love or compassion we would not survive one day in this world you claim was created by God.
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 ^ For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities - His eternal power and divine nature - have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse."
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Shabbat

Main article: Shabbat
Two braided Shabbat challahs placed under an embroidered challah cover at the start of the Shabbat meal.
.Shabbat, the weekly day of rest lasting from shortly before sundown on Friday night to shortly after sundown Saturday night, commemorates God's day of rest after six days of creation.^ On the sixth day God created man, on the seventh He rested.
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 ^ It also says that everything was created in six days.
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 ^ The days are literal days and His creation lasted for a period of six days.
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 [48] .It plays a pivotal role in Jewish practice and is governed by a large corpus of religious law.^ The debate about Christian America is whether the government has the right to establish a religion or laws that promote religious beliefs (such as the 10 commandments or prayer in schools.
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 ^ LJ: "In particular we ought to have laws against corrupt and religiously inclined governments that torture their own people.
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 ^ It is quite obvious to any reader of the Qur'an that Muhammad had not a clue of the role in God's plan for salvation that the Jewish Messiah (Jesus) was to play.
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 .At sundown on Friday, the woman of the house welcomes the Shabbat by lighting two or more candles and reciting a blessing.^ Just like it is possible for a woman to love two or more men at once.
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 ^ Muhammad decided to take the more beautiful of the two, Mariyah, for himself, lodging her in a nearby house.
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 The evening meal begins with the Kiddush, a blessing recited aloud over a cup of wine, and the Mohtzi, a blessing recited over the bread. It is customary to have challah, two braided loaves of bread, on the table. During Shabbat Jews are forbidden to engage in any activity that falls under 39 categories of melakhah, translated literally as "work". .In fact the activities banned on the Sabbath are not "work" in the usual sense: They include such actions as lighting a fire, writing, using money and carrying in the public domain.^ The difference is that, when their works are killed, they will have managed to have drawn all colors of Light (or Intelligence) into the event horizon of the black-hole.

 ^ Although such beasts are unfit for work, they are fit for killing.
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 ^ Sometimes they worked together and the El was simply added to the end of Ru, such as in Meru-el, also known as Merul.

 The prohibition of lighting a fire has been extended in the modern era to driving a car, which involves burning fuel, and using electricity.

Three pilgrimage festivals

Main article: Shalosh regalim
Sukkahs in Jerusalem.
.Jewish holy days (haggim), celebrate landmark events in Jewish history, such as the Exodus from Egypt and the giving of the Torah, and sometimes mark the change of seasons and transitions in the agricultural cycle.^ It would have been suicide for the very early Christian converts to celebrate their holy days with observances that did not coincide with celebrations that already existed.

 ^ A tradition of celebrating a gene line, such as the Jewish line in the Old Testament, can hardly fail to be divisive and draw flak from the neighbors.
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 ^ The book includes new commentaries that consider advances in archaeology, history and linguistics - several of which question the historical veracity of biblical events including the Exodus.

 The three major festivals, Sukkot, Passover and Shavuot, are called "regalim" (derived from the Hebrew word "regel", or foot). .On the three regalim, it was customary for the Israelites to make pilgrimages to Jerusalem to offer sacrifices in the Temple.^ The Jews did return from Babylon, they did recover their city, they did rebuild their temple, and they did offer sacrifices.
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 ^ This makes it clear that in this instance God did not simply reject sacrifices, but that he rejected them because those who offered them were adulterers and thieves and plotted against theirs brothers.
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 ^ And, again, the three boys who were captives in Babylon said; "At this time we have no prince or prophet nor place to offer sacrifice in your sight and find mercy."
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  • Passover (Pesach) is a week-long holiday beginning on the evening of the 14th day of Nisan (the first month in the Hebrew calendar), that commemorates the Exodus from Egypt.^ We agree on a clock and a calendar, and a set of means to use them to determine the year, month, day, hour and so on.
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     ^ Most of you will probably be reminded of Dorothy’s longing for somewhere over the rainbow, even so, I’m sure you’ll still find it pleasant even if it is only day-dreaming: .
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     Outside Israel, Passover is celebrated for eight days. In ancient times, it coincided with the barley harvest. It is the only holiday that centers on home-service, the Seder. Leavened products (chametz) are removed from the house prior to the holiday, and are not consumed throughout the week. Homes are thoroughly cleaned to ensure no bread or bread by-products remain, and a symbolic burning of the last vestiges of chametz is conducted on the morning of the Seder. Matzo is eaten instead of bread.
  • Shavuot ("Pentecost" or "Feast of Weeks") celebrates the revelation of the Torah to the Israelites on Mount Sinai. Also known as the Festival of Bikurim, or first fruits, it coincided in biblical times with the wheat harvest. .Shavuot customs include all-night study marathons known as Tikkun Leil Shavuot, eating dairy foods (cheesecake and blintzes are special favorites), reading the Book of Ruth, decorating homes and synagogues with greenery, and wearing white clothing, symbolizing purity.
  • Sukkot ("Tabernacles" or "The Festival of Booths") commemorates the Israelites' forty years of wandering through the desert on their way to the Promised Land.^ But I think people want to go through these rituals, ceremonies and symbolic ways of expressing their love because it is something that makes them feel good.
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     ^ These are facts that more than likely give you adequate information about the decisions you make in your life----spanning what kind of clothes you wear, what food you choose to eat and what time you want your daughter home from a date.
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     ^ Of Dennet all I said is that I read his book "Breaking the Spell" and found it to be about 300 pages tooooo long.....
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     It is celebrated through the construction of temporary booths called sukkot (sing. sukkah) that represent the temporary shelters of the Israelites during their wandering. It coincides with the fruit harvest, and marks the end of the agricultural cycle. .Jews around the world eat in sukkot for seven days and nights.^ Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water.
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     ^ When he was on the cross, he split the rocks, darkened the earth, turned aside the rays of the sun, and made night out of day over the whole world.
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     ^ Today is the longest day in this part of the world (21 Dec), and I suppose it is the longest night in your part of the world.
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     .Sukkot concludes with Shemini Atzeret, where Jews begin to pray for rain and Simchat Torah, "Rejoicing of the Torah", a holiday which marks reaching the end of the Torah reading cycle and beginning all over again.^ If we all agree fundamentally that there's no beginning and no end to existence, then how can you ultimately pin down a point in time?"
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     ^ If we all agree fundamentally that there's no beginning and no end to existence, then how can you ultimately pin down a point in time?
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     ^ But of course all this takes millions of years and we only have the fossils of the beginning and the end stages and nothing in between.
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     The occasion is celebrated with singing and dancing with the Torah scrolls.

High Holy Days

Main article: High Holidays
Jews praying in a synagogue on Yom Kippur, from an 1878 painting by Maurycy Gottlieb
.The High Holidays (Yamim Noraim or "Days of Awe") revolve around judgment and forgiveness.^ In the same way, those whom you saved in this life will stand around you on the day of judgment.
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  • Rosh Hashanah, (also Yom Ha-Zikkaron or "Day of Remembrance", and Yom Teruah, or "Day of the Sounding of the Shofar"). .Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year (literally, "head of the year"), although it falls on the first day of the seventh month of the Hebrew calendar, Tishri.^ The earth would have no constant orbit that we could figure out days or months or years from.
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     ^ A year is recorded by the time it takes the earth to rotate around the sun, a month by the moons rotation around the earth, a day by the full rotation of the earth upon its axis.
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     ^ We agree on a clock and a calendar, and a set of means to use them to determine the year, month, day, hour and so on.
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     .Rosh Hashanah marks the beginning of the 10-day period of atonement leading up to Yom Kippur, during which Jews are commanded to search their souls and make amends for sins committed, intentionally or not, throughout the year.^ He committed incest, he has sinned; he does not want to give up his licentious ways; he is puffed up and boastful and has made his wound incurable.
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     ^ (Mark 10:6; Matthew 19:4) Is the Bible lying when it says that sin entered the world through one man, and in this way death came to all men?
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     ^ The Jews were not permitted to fast during the days of the feast of unleavened bread.
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     .Holiday customs include blowing the shofar, or ram's horn, in the synagogue, eating apples and honey, and saying blessings over a variety of symbolic foods, such as pomegranates.
  • Yom Kippur, ("Day of Atonement") is the most solemn day of the Jewish year.^ And why couldn’t we come intae season for just a few weeks instead of being made randy every blessed day of the year!
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     ^ "And why couldn’t we come intae season for just a few weeks instead of being made randy every blessed day of the year!
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     .It is a day of communal fasting and praying for forgiveness for one's sins.^ Soja: “Keeping the Sabbath day holy: Using one day in the week tae rest, pray and be with the family, keeps the family sense of community” .
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     ^ Keeping the Sabbath day holy: Using one day in the week to rest, pray and be with the family, keeps the family and sense of community; .
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     .Observant Jews spend the entire day in the synagogue, sometimes with a short break in the afternoon, reciting prayers from a special holiday prayerbook called a "Mahzor". Many non-religious Jews make a point of attending synagogue services and fasting on Yom Kippur.^ Despite his fundamentalist upbringing, he spent many years trying to explain that experience from a scientific point of view rather than label it a religious experience.
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     ^ There is nothing wrong with calling oneself a non-astrologer, if lawmakers were making laws in the name of astrology, the way Bush and the Supreme Court are maaking laws in the name of "god".
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     ^ Lets just face the facts here, whether you call it killing or murder, for Jew or non-Jew the bible's message is clear killing and murder are just fine with god...........
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     On the eve of Yom Kippur, before candles are lit, a prefast meal, the "seuda mafseket", is eaten. Synagogue services on the eve of Yom Kippur begin with the Kol Nidre prayer. It is customary to wear white on Yom Kippur, especially for Kol Nidre, and leather shoes are not worn. .The following day, prayers are held from morning to evening.^ Even if this was the case, we could not, by following in their footsteps, put our finger on the very day on which He was crucified and fulfilled the Pasch.
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     The final prayer service, called "Ne'ilah", ends with a long blast of the shofar.

Other holidays

Main article: Hanukkah
Hanukkah (Hebrew: חֲנֻכָּה‎, "dedication") also known as the Festival of Lights, is an eight day Jewish holiday that starts on the 25th day of Kislev (Hebrew calendar). .The festival is observed in Jewish homes by the kindling of lights on each of the festival's eight nights, one on the first night, two on the second night and so on.^ I think the third option is the only one open to us; the first will lead to disaster, the second will not stand long in the courts.
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 ^ One was the number of original unity, and two the number of the first division.
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 ^ We both feel it as white light flowing from one to the other in an incredibly intense way which lasts for two hours.
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.The holiday was called Hanukkah (meaning "dedication") because it marks the re-dedication of the Temple after its desecration by Antiochus IV Epiphanes.^ I agree that because I call your worldview delusional it does not mean that I do not count you as a highly intelligent, loving, functional human being with dignity and worth.
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 .Spiritually, Hanukkah commemorates the "Miracle of the Oil". According to the Talmud, at the re-dedication of the Temple in Jerusalem following the victory of the Maccabees over the Seleucid Empire, there was only enough consecrated oil to fuel the eternal flame in the Temple for one day.^ I contend that there is only one.
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 ^ There is only One who does.
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 ^ There is only one true faith.
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 .Miraculously, the oil burned for eight days - which was the length of time it took to press, prepare and consecrate new oil.^ Non fiction books with "no new ideas" seldom stay on the best sellers list for any length of time."
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 ^ Like I said, non fiction books with nothing new to say seldom stay on the best sellers list for any length of time.
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 ^ Non fiction books with "no new ideas" seldom stay on the best sellers list for any length of time.
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.Hanukkah is not mentioned in the Bible and was never considered a major holiday in Judaism, but it has become much more visible and widely celebrated in modern times, mainly because it falls around the same time as Christmas and has national Jewish overtones that have been emphasized since the establishment of the State of Israel.^ When we can do this then any thought we have becomes so much more powerful.
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 ^ Those people who go out and get remarried fall into the same divorce statistics as the one's doing it for the first time.
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 ^ Since Christmas marks the birth of light (Jesus) at the darkest time of the year, symbolically, here's wishing you all a Merry Christmas (or a Merry Festive Season or Holiday or Whatever) and a Happy New Year 2008!
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Main article: Purim
Purim street scene in Jerusalem.
.Purim (Hebrew: About this sound פורים (help·info) Pûrîm "lots") is a joyous Jewish holiday that commemorates the deliverance of the Persian Jews from the plot of the evil Haman, who sought to exterminate them, as recorded in the biblical Book of Esther.^ There will be trouble for every human being who does evil: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.
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 It is characterized by public recitation of the Book of Esther, mutual gifts of food and drink, charity to the poor, and a celebratory meal (Esther 9:22). .Other customs include drinking wine, eating special pastries called hamantashen, dressing up in masks and costumes, and organizing carnivals and parties.^ Atheism is not a religion, nor an organized party, according to Socrates if they were, then they wouldn’t have been called atheists.
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 ^ It is very easy to assume (incorrectly) words on a blog and very easy to call others' view "narrow" when they don't line up with yours.
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 ^ As Susan Jacoby and others have hinted at in recent forums, "Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow you die."
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Purim is celebrated annually on the 14th of the Hebrew month of Adar, which occurs in February or March of the Gregorian calendar.
Main article: Tisha B'Av
Tisha B'Av (Hebrew: תשעה באב‎ or ט׳ באב, "the Ninth of Av,") is a holiday of mourning and fasting commemorating the destruction of the First and Second Temples and the expulsion of the Jews from Spain.
Main articles: Yom Hashoah and Yom Ha'atzmaut
Holocaust Rememberance Day and Israeli Independence Day, respectively, commemorating events of the 1940s. Those are not traditional holidays, but they help Jews commemorate recent events.

Torah readings

Main article: Torah reading
.The core of festival and Shabbat prayer services is the public reading of the Torah, along with connected readings from the other books of the Tanakh, called Haftarah.^ I have not read any of his other books, which is apparently where the good stuff must be and what made him notable.
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 ^ Shannon Murphy - have you read the other books?
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 ^ Thank you Sam Harris for writing that book, needless to say that I immediately order your other book which I am reading at this moment.
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 .Over the course of a year, the whole Torah is read, with the cycle starting over in the autumn, on Simchat Torah.^ I do not want to prolong this discussion by going into them and start a whole new cycle.
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Synagogues and religious buildings

Main article: Synagogue
Interior of the Esnoga synagogue in Amsterdam
Synagogues are Jewish houses of prayer and study. .They usually contain separate rooms for prayer (the main sanctuary), smaller rooms for study, and often an area for community or educational use.^ I'm aware of studies that show how much more aggressive they make communication compared with face to face, or verbal.
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 ^ They are useful in that they allow us to communicate with each other about our world, but they do not seem, yet anyway, to reveal the ultimate mode of reality of anything.
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 ^ The succession of organisms has been determined by the study of their remains imbedded in the rocks, and the relative ages of the rocks are determined by the remains of organisms they contain."
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 .There is no set blueprint for synagogues and the architectural shapes and interior designs of synagogues vary greatly.^ No, I'm not proposing there is a designer.
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 ^ "Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are IN CHRIST JESUS, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death.
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 ^ No one holds jurisdiction over a complete set of truths and we all understand there is gray intermingled in even the most black and white situation.
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 The Reform movement mostly refer to their synagogues as temples. Some traditional features of a synagogue are:
  • The ark (called aron ha-kodesh by Ashkenazim and hekhal by Sephardim) where the Torah scrolls are kept (the ark is often closed with an ornate curtain (parochet) outside or inside the ark doors);
  • The elevated reader's platform (called bimah by Ashkenazim and tebah by Sephardim), where the Torah is read (and services are conducted in Sephardi synagogues);
  • The eternal light (ner tamid), a continually-lit lamp or lantern used as a reminder of the constantly lit menorah of the Temple in Jerusalem
  • The pulpit, or amud (Hebrew, a lecturn facing the Ark where the hazzan or prayer leader stands while praying.
In addition to synagogues, other buildings of significance in Judaism include yeshivas, or institutions of Jewish learning, and mikvahs, which are ritual baths.

Dietary laws: Kashrut

Main article: Kashrut
The Jewish dietary laws are known as kashrut. Food prepared in accordance with them is termed kosher, and food that is not kosher is also known as treifah or treif. People who observe these laws are colloquially said to be "keeping kosher".[49]
Many of the laws apply to animal-based foods. For example, in order to be considered kosher, mammals must have split hooves and chew their cud. .The pig is arguably the most well-known example of a non-kosher animal.^ Well OK. If a hypothetical proposition is too much for you then try this on for size, just one of many examples and definitely non-hypothetical!
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 [50] Although it has split hooves, it does not chew its cud.[51] For seafood to be kosher, the animal must have fins and scales. Certain types of seafood, such as shellfish, crustaceans, and eels, are therefore considered non-kosher. Concerning birds, a list of non-kosher species is given in the Torah. .The exact translations of many of the species have not survived, and some non-kosher birds' identities are no longer certain.^ Today, we can morally change our behavior towards people because we no longer see them as possessed by the Devil, or as witches or savages from a different species altogether.
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 ^ Does this mean that you are no longer certain?
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 ^ If you are 100% certain you no longer hold to the position that nothing can be known for certain.
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 However, traditions exist about the kashrut status of a few birds. For example, both chickens and turkeys are permitted in most communities. .Other types of animals, such as amphibians, reptiles, and most insects, are prohibited altogether.^ They were lead to believe that there were favorable races and inferior races that were just above those of other evolved animals such as apes.
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 ^ I.E. I feel compassion for others, that could not happen on it's own, it had to be given to me by a god, and god would not have given me such a gift if I were not the most special creature in all of creation!
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 [49]
In addition to the requirement that the species be considered kosher, meat and poultry (but not fish) must come from a healthy animal slaughtered in a process known as shechitah. Without the proper slaughtering practices even an otherwise kosher animal will be rendered treif. The slaughtering process is intended to be quick and relatively painless to the animal. .Forbidden parts of animals include the blood, some fats, and the area in and around the sciatic nerve.^ Some of the laws of societies around the world are based on the Biblical code of ethics in part but when man makes his own rules anything is possible.” .
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 ^ Some of the laws of societies around the world are based on the Biblical code of ethics in part but when man makes his own rules anything is possible.
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 [49]
Rabbinic Judaism forbids the consumption of meat and dairy products together. .The waiting period between eating meat and eating dairy varies by the order in which they are consumed and by community, and can extend for up to six hours.^ Seeking a defence, the entomologists scoured the world; finally they turned up an insect, which exclusively feeds on cactus, and would eat nothing else.
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 .Based on the Biblical injunction against cooking a kid in its mother's milk, this rule is mostly derived from the Oral Torah, the Talmud and Rabbinic law.^ Some of the laws of societies around the world are based on the Biblical code of ethics in part but when man makes his own rules anything is possible.” .
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 ^ Some of the laws of societies around the world are based on the Biblical code of ethics in part but when man makes his own rules anything is possible.
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 [49] .Chicken and other kosher birds are considered the same as meat under the laws of kashrut, but the prohibition is Rabbinic, not Biblical.^ The claims are the same, just one has a name for the non-physical world laws and the other says it's what science hasn't found yet.
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 [52]
.The use of dishes, serving utensils, and ovens may make food treif that would otherwise be kosher.^ Harris' new proposal would surely make it easier to get the interlocutor to use rationale, rather than attacks to make their point.
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 ^ Sam's interest in meditation is personal and it makes sense he would use his own personal experiences to make his point.
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 ^ Even talking to oneself out loud may occasionally serve a useful function.
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 .Utensils that have been used to prepare non-kosher food, or dishes that have held meat and are now used for dairy products, render the food treif under certain conditions.^ But if people want to practice certain (non harmful) acts ----say meditation or those examples I used above, or even celibacy--then I don't see what is "poisonous" about that.
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 [49]
.Furthermore, Orthodox Judaism forbids the consumption of processed grape products made by non-Jews, based on ancient pagan practices of using wine in rituals.^ But if people want to practice certain (non harmful) acts ----say meditation or those examples I used above, or even celibacy--then I don't see what is "poisonous" about that.
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 ^ I've just made one more choice then you, based on the same reasoning as you used for believing there are no god or god(s).......
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 [49] Conservative Judaism, a branch that maintains a more modernist interpretation of halakha, has challenged this.[53]
.The Torah does not give specific reasons for most of the laws of kashrut.^ Although I can share most of the reasons Sam gives fornot labelling ourselves as 'atheists' I still see some more strategic reasons to do so.
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 ^ Hard scientists have come to understand the world and its inter workings better than most others and this understanding gives them reason not to believe in God.
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 ^ Does the context give any reason for turning an historical narrative into an allegory or figurative speech or visa versa?
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 [49] .However, a number of explanations have been offered, including maintaining ritual purity, teaching impulse control, encouraging obedience to God, improving health, reducing cruelty to animals and preserving the distinctness of the Jewish community.^ Hence, animals are under man's control, although ultimately everything is under God's sovereignty, and only He can bring back to life what is dead.
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 ^ That purity in heart is in the Son and we who believe are included in Him, but God also changes the minds of the regenerate in the desire to do His will, to do what is right, to stand for what is right, what is good.
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 ^ Man is always and has always been man, since he was first made, distinct from the animals God has made.
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 [54] .The various categories of dietary laws may have developed for different reasons, and some may exist for multiple reasons.^ But as satisfying as it is, I do have some concern remaining, over its efficacy, which is really the only reason of developing an atheist communication I'm personally interested in.
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 ^ Do you consider that intelligent life may have existed on other planets for hundreds of millions, if not, billions of years, before our planet developed life?
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 ^ I think we can spend eternity disputing the numbers and we will find some variance between different surveys completed over the last few years.
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 .For example, people are forbidden from consuming the blood of birds and mammals because, according to the Torah, this is where animal souls are contained.^ Animals don’t sin, don’t need salvation, and do not (according to your God) have a soul.
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 ^ YOU: "For example, many people today, because of moral or ethical reasons do not eat animals or eat only animals who have been raised 'humanely".
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 ^ For example, many people today, because of moral or ethical reasons do not eat animals or eat only animals who have been raised 'humanely".
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 [55] .In contrast, the Torah forbids Israelites from eating non-kosher species because "they are unclean."^ Because they didn't eat from the tree of knowledge like we did :) And yet they still get cancer.
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 ^ I said that NON MONOGAMOUS couples can have sex with others and still be "true" to each other because they are being honest.
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 [56] The Kabbalah describes sparks of holiness that are released by the act of eating kosher foods, but are too tightly bound in non-kosher foods to be released by eating.[57]
.Survival concerns supersede all the laws of kashrut, as they do for most halakhot.^ "When Moses went and told the people all the LORD's words and LAWS, they responded with one voice, "Everything the LORD has said we will do."
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 ^ I now come to that part of Christian morals where they differ most sharply from all other morals.
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 ^ They just wouldn't be all hung up on a concept that doesn't exists for most people.
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Laws of ritual purity

Main article: Tumah
.The Tanakh describes circumstances in which a person who is tahor or ritually pure may become tamei or ritually impure.^ These are some of the many foundational questions that, without an absolute standard, you cannot make sense of at all, because all it is is pure personal preference, pure subjective opinion and who cares what you or I believe in such circumstances?
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 ^ While I cannot speak for them, I can state what is self-evident to me--a person who lacks your faith faithfully and consistently: The mysteries of the universe may never be known.
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 ^ How could He who delights only in that which is pure and lovely, loathe and hate not that which is impure and vile?
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 Some of these circumstances are contact with human corpses or graves, seminal flux, vaginal flux, menstruation, and contact with people who have become impure from any of these.[60][61]
.From a Rabbinic Jewish perspective, modern Jews are in a very high state of ritual impurity because removing any impurity conferred by the dead (tum'at meit) required the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, now no longer standing, and a ritual involving a sacrificed red heifer.^ You are now no longer perfect.
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 ^ You are now no longer perfect" .
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 ^ We, as creatures have inherited that nature of Adam, and we no longer have the ability to obey God perfectly, which a perfect obedience God requires of His creatures.
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 .Karaite Judaism maintains that in the absence of a Temple, ordinary washing should be substituted for the red heifer ritual—Karaites believe this was the practice before the Temple was built.^ Before you criticize my worldview, find out where your standard comes from and why it should be believed.
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 ^ Before you criticize my worldview, find out where your standard comes from and why it should be believed."
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 ^ Unfortunately, I have few answers- non-believers should be open to ceremony, to ritual, to community, to cultural bonding in ways that build meaning while respecting truth.
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 [62][63] For this reason, many of the laws of avoiding tum'at meit are no longer considered relevant in Rabbinic Judaism, but are still followed by observant Karaite Jews. .However, even in Rabbinic Judaism, Kohanim, members of the hereditary caste that served as priests in the time of the Temple, are still mostly restricted from entering grave sites and touching dead bodies.^ Even when cooped up with homicidal maniacs and rapists, most people still prefer the company of others to spending any significant amount of time alone in a box.
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 ^ However, even if it is hyperbolic, it is still representative of the high enthusiasm that Sam has, that I believe is utopian.
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Family purity

Main article: Niddah
An important subcategory of the ritual purity laws relates to the segregation of menstruating women. These laws are also known as niddah, literally "separation", or family purity. .Vital aspects of halakha for traditionally observant Jews, they are not usually followed by Jews in liberal denominations.^ They began that way, but liberal reconstructionism and deconstructionism turned the tables for later ideas and the consequences that followed.
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Especially in Orthodox Judaism, the Biblical laws are augmented by Rabbinical injunctions. .For example, the Torah mandates that a woman in her normal menstrual period must abstain from sexual intercourse for seven days.^ Men boast of their sexual conquests But a woman must chaste appear So the bored wife Flirts with taste.
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 A woman whose menstruation is prolonged must continue to abstain for seven more days after bleeding has stopped.[60] .The Rabbis conflated ordinary niddah with this extended menstrual period, known in the Torah as zavah, and mandated that a woman may not have sexual intercourse with her husband from the time she begins her menstrual flow until seven days after it ends.^ I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come.
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 ^ Meditate in solitude for an extended period of time.
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 ^ From an evolutionary perspective, since I am going to die regardless, without any moral consequences, I will do whatever it takes to survive until I know that my time is at end.
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 In addition, Rabbinical law forbids the husband from touching or sharing a bed with his wife during this period. Afterwards, purification can occur in a ritual bath called a mikveh.[66]
Traditional Ethiopian Jews keep menstruating women in separate huts and, along with Karaite Jews, do not allow menstruating women into their temples because of a temple's special sanctity. .Emigration to Israel and the influence of other Jewish denominations have led to Ethopian Jews adopting more normative Jewish practices.^ For me, it is my belief in the divinity of Jesus that makes it more attractive than other religions, in addition to His teachings and the exemplary life Jesus led.
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 ^ You are instructed to learn about other views and consider them, and "junk" them if they don't make sense, or adopt them if they make more sense than the "Buddhist" view.
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Life-cycle events

.Life-cycle events, or rites of passage, occur throughout a Jew's life that serve to strengthen Jewish identity and bind him/her to the entire community.^ You: "He has given my life meaning and purpose, the ultimate purpose of knowing and serving Him to the capacity that He has enabled me."
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 ^ He has given my life meaning and purpose, the ultimate purpose of knowing and serving Him to the capacity that He has enabled me.
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  • Brit milah - Welcoming male babies into the covenant through the rite of circumcision on their eighth day of life.^ Perhaps the universe itself is life, or innately filled with life that has no problem squeezing through the Big Bang and into this universal form from the last.
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     The baby boy is also given his Hebrew name in the ceremony. .A naming ceremony intended as a parallel ritual for girls, named zeved habat, enjoys limited popularity.
  • Bar mitzvah and Bat mitzvah - This passage from childhood to adulthood takes place when a female Jew is twelve and a male Jew is thirteen years old among Orthodox and some Conservative congregations.^ That takes thirteen years of practice while the dumb husband waits at home.
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     ^ When Friedman asked one Sunni militant why he was doing this, he said that he had recently watched a member of al-Qaeda decapitate an 8-year-old girl.
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     ^ Some females were so aggressive in their pursuit of the male that he actually had physically to attack them to rebuff their advances.
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     In the Reform movement, both girls and boys have their bat/bar mitzvah at age thirteen. .This is often commemorated by having the new adults, male only in the Orthodox tradition, lead the congregation in prayer and publicly read a "portion" of the Torah.
  • Marriage - Marriage is an extremely important lifecycle event.^ Then it will be simple to convince people to stop having babies just for the sake of having babies because that is the only tradition that they know.
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     ^ I am only making suggestions that there seems to be some indication of a positive relationship between marriage and children and (yes adults) and it MAY be beneficial.
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     ^ Having said that, yes, I think sexual fidelity is important to a happy marriage, or at least to my marriage.
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     A wedding takes place under a chupah, or wedding canopy, which symbolizes a happy house. .At the end of the ceremony, the groom breaks a glass with his foot, symbolizing the continuous mourning for the destruction of the Temple, and the scattering of the Jewish people.
  • Death and Mourning - Judaism has a multi-staged mourning practice.^ Judaism as a religion is the work of several holy people over several centuries anyway, so why shouldn't the trend continue?
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     The first stage is called the shiva (literally "seven", observed for one week) during which it is traditional to sit at home and be comforted by friends and family, the second is the shloshim (observed for one month) and for those who have lost one of their parents, there is a third stage, avelut yud bet chodesh, which is observed for eleven months.
See also:-Yetzer harah

Community leadership

Classical priesthood

The role of the priesthood in Judaism has significantly diminished since the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE, when priests attended to the Temple and sacrifices. .The priesthood is an inherited position, and although priests no longer have any but ceremonial duties, they are still honored in many Jewish communities.^ Since Adam’s sin, our wills are no longer free and unbiased; they have a propensity to do that which is evil in God’s sight and in that action man was no longer able to do that which is perfect.
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 ^ If you are 100% certain you no longer hold to the position that nothing can be known for certain.
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 ^ And what else is left for me to say when some of you are still sick although there are so many physicians to effect a cure?
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 Many Orthodox Jewish communities believe that they will be needed again for a future Third Temple and need to remain in readiness for future duty.
  • Kohen (priest) - patrilineal descendant of Aaron, brother of Moses. In the Temple, the kohanim were charged with performing the sacrifices. .Today, a Kohen is the first one called up at the reading of the Torah, performs the Priestly Blessing, as well as complying with other unique laws and ceremonies, including the ceremony of redemption of the first-born.
  • Levi (Levite) - Patrilineal descendant of Levi the son of Jacob.^ If he chooses to break those laws, just like in any other society, there are consequences (And without Christ in the long run, eternal ones)."
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     ^ Well Gad, first you have to show me how you are using your reasoning in determining where morals come from, how something can and has come from nothing, and all the other arguments I have presented against your worldview before you call mine childish.
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     ^ ME: "Well Gad, first you have to show me how you are using your reasoning in determining where morals come from, how something can and has come from nothing, and all the other arguments I have presented against your world-view before you call mine childish.
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     In the Temple in Jerusalem, the levites sang Psalms, performed construction, maintenance, janitorial, and guard duties, assisted the priests, and sometimes interpreted the law and Temple ritual to the public. Today, a Levite is called up second to the reading of the Torah.

Prayer leaders

.From the time of the Mishnah and Talmud to the present, Judaism has required specialists or authorities for the practice of very few rituals or ceremonies.^ Practical solutions that require education, sound policy and problem-solving (and a few bucks thrown into the kitty).
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 ^ Unfortunately, I have few answers- non-believers should be open to ceremony, to ritual, to community, to cultural bonding in ways that build meaning while respecting truth.
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 A Jew can fulfill most requirements for prayer by himself. .Some activities—reading the Torah and haftarah (a supplementary portion from the Prophets or Writings), the prayer for mourners, the blessings for bridegroom and bride, the complete grace after meals—require a minyan, the presence of ten adults (Orthodox Jews and some Conservative Jews require ten adult men; some Conservative Jews and Reform Jews include women in the minyan).^ Mature women are like aged wine and some men eventually figure it out.
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 ^ They have the prophets but not believe them; they read the sacred writings but reject their witness-and this is a mark of men guilty of the greatest outrage.
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 ^ By God's grace, we made the prophets our warriors against the Jews and routed them.
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The most common professional clergy in a synagogue are:
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  • Rabbi of a congregation - Jewish scholar who is charged with answering the legal questions of a congregation.^ Take away all of the religion, and a theist is just one who answers the big unanswered questions.
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     ^ YOU: "Theists are the ones who made-up answers to all of these questions because they have a fear of living with these questions unanswered.
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     ^ All you are doing is ensuring that it will definitely not be you, who discovers some new idea about these questions that we currently do not have conclusive answers for.
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     This role requires ordination by the congregation's preferred authority (i.e. from a respected Orthodox rabbi or, if the congregation is Conservative or Reform, from academic seminaries). .A congregation does not necessarily require a rabbi.^ Love and sex together does not necessarily require monogamy or marriage.
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     Some congregations have a rabbi but also allow members of the congregation to act as shatz or baal kriyah (see below).
    • Hassidic Rebbe - rabbi who is the head of a Hasidic dynasty.
  • Hazzan (note: the "h" denotes voiceless pharyngeal fricative) (cantor) - a trained vocalist who acts as shatz. .Chosen for a good voice, knowledge of traditional tunes, understanding of the meaning of the prayers and sincerity in reciting them.^ PH. When I refer to the word "all" I mean every possible scrap of knowledge that is possible in understanding anything.
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     ^ When I refer to the word "all" I mean every possible scrap of knowledge that is possible in understanding anything.
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     ^ And their understanding of what that means will vary based on their level of scientific knowledge.
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     A congregation does not need to have a dedicated hazzan.
Jewish prayer services do involve two specified roles, which are sometimes, but not always, filled by a rabbi and/or hazzan in many congregations. In other congregations these roles are filled on an ad-hoc basis by members of the congregation who lead portions of services on a rotating basis:
  • Shaliach tzibur or Shatz (leader—literally "agent" or "representative"—of the congregation) leads those assembled in prayer, and sometimes prays on behalf of the community. When a shatz recites a prayer on behalf of the congregation, he is not acting as an intermediary but rather as a facilitator. The entire congregation participates in the recital of such prayers by saying amen at their conclusion; it is with this act that the shatz's prayer becomes the prayer of the congregation. Any adult capable of reciting the prayers clearly may act as shatz. .In Orthodox congregations and some Conservative congregations, only men can be prayer leaders, but the Conservative and Reform movements now allow women to serve in this function.
  • The Baal kriyah or baal koreh (master of the reading) reads the weekly Torah portion.^ George Orwell said that for the thinking man there are only three choices: there is the Catholic Church, or some sort of political movement,...
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     ^ Iowans have little exposure to secular or reform/conservative Jews; they've only ever heard of Lubavitchers and other Orthodox jews who are indeed mysterious and out of the mainstream.
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     ^ God has always put equal value on both men and women, He just gave each of us different functions, roles and abilities.
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     The requirements for being the baal kriyah are the same as those for the shatz. These roles are not mutually exclusive. .The same person is often qualified to fill more than one role, and often does.^ It sometimes happened that in one and the same house one person would believe, and another would not; then the father would want to lead his own son to deny his faith.
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     ^ Does he not love you more than any father?
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     ^ For the good shepherd does more than drive away the wolves; he also is most diligent in caring for his sheep who are sick.
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     Often there are several people capable of filling these roles and different services (or parts of services) will be led by each.
Many congregations, especially larger ones, also rely on a:
  • Gabbai (sexton) - Calls people up to the Torah, appoints the shatz for each prayer session if there is no standard shatz, and makes certain that the synagogue is kept clean and supplied.
The three preceding positions are usually voluntary and considered an honor. .Since the Enlightenment large synagogues have often adopted the practice of hiring rabbis and hazzans to act as shatz and baal kriyah, and this is still typically the case in many Conservative and Reform congregations.^ This is a better website and I used it many time in my Christadelphian debates, still, since I see the divinity of Jesus as proof that bible is false so I side with the Christadelphian argument.
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 However, in most Orthodox synagogues these positions are filled by laypeople on a rotating or ad-hoc basis. .Although most congregations hire one or more Rabbis, the use of a professional hazzan is generally declining in American congregations, and the use of professionals for other offices is rarer still.^ I'm actually happy to see by the reaction to these posts that most atheists are not like the one's that I refer to, but more like me.
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 ^ Alternative medicine is a generic term used to describe any other approach that employs principles and methods that are different from those of orthodox medicine.

 ^ Gad said: "As for meditation Vs drugs, six of one half dozen of the other, both are nothing more then attempts to avoid talking to ones self..........
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Specialized religious roles

  • Dayan (judge) - An ordained rabbi with special legal training who belongs to a beth din (rabbinical court). .In Israel, religious courts handle marriage and divorce cases, conversion and financial disputes in the Jewish community.
  • Mohel (circumciser) - An expert in the laws of circumcision who has received training from a previously qualified mohel and performs the brit milah (circumcision).
  • Shochet (ritual slaughterer) - In order for meat to be kosher, it must be slaughtered by a shochet who is an expert in the laws of kashrut and has been trained by another shochet.
  • Sofer (scribe) - Torah scrolls, tefillin (phylacteries), mezuzot (scrolls put on doorposts), and gittin (bills of divorce) must be written by a sofer who is an expert in Hebrew calligraphy and has undergone rigorous training in the laws of writing sacred texts.
  • Rosh yeshiva - A Torah scholar who runs a yeshiva.
  • Mashgiach of a yeshiva - Supervises the emotional and spiritual welfare of students in a yeshiva, and gives lectures on mussar (Jewish ethics).
  • Mashgiach - Supervises manufacturers of kosher food, importers, caterers and restaurants to ensure that the food is kosher.^ Along with any text, there must be a right interpretation of the Scriptures in order to get the Author's meaning."
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     ^ There are volumes written about these ideas, and I do not claim to be an expert as I also stated previously.
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     ^ I will argue that marriage is delusional when religious beliefs enter into the picture stating that women submit to their hubs and they must "obey" them and all that crap.
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     Must be an expert in the laws of kashrut and trained by a rabbi, if not a rabbi himself.

History

Main article: Jewish history

Origins

Main article: Origins of Judaism
Further information: Ancient Semitic religion
Scenes from the Book of Esther decorate the Dura-Europos synagogue dating from 244 CE
.At its core, the Tanakh is an account of the Israelites' relationship with God from their earliest history until the building of the Second Temple (c.^ Until the Lord returns our best is going to be second best because we are sinners, we sin and fall short of God's glory (and standards).
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 ^ None of your historical accounts of the written word, the number of manuscripts written and preserved through history indicates an authentic God.
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 535 BCE). Abraham is hailed as the first Hebrew and the father of the Jewish people. .As a reward for his act of faith in one God, he was promised that Isaac, his second son, would inherit the Land of Israel (then called Canaan).^ Believing in God is an act of faith.
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 ^ Without acts of love or compassion we would not survive one day in this world you claim was created by God.
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 ^ And logically, you do not know everything, so unless God reveals Himself to you, you are the one with the blind faith, never knowing anything for certain.
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 .Later, Jacob and his children were enslaved in Egypt, and God commanded Moses to lead the Exodus from Egypt.^ Both had broken His commands, yet God chose (before the foundation of the world) to have mercy and compassion on Jacob and hold Esau accountable for his rebellion.
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 At Mount Sinai they received the Torah - the five books of Moses. .These books, together with Nevi'im and Ketuvim are known as Torah Shebikhtav as opposed to the Oral Torah, which refers to the Mishna and the Talmud.^ The Scriptures Jesus referred to would be the 39 books of the Old Testament, for at various times throughout His ministry He refers to these different books as Scripture.
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 .Eventually, God led them to the land of Israel where the tabernacle was planted in the city of Shiloh for over 300 years to rally the nation against attacking enemies.^ These nations practiced cruelty and immorality against the immoral people God brought them against.
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 ^ Israel is a prime example of a nation that kept doing what was right in their own eyes, although they had the revelation of God as their guide.
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 .As time went on, the spiritual level of the nation declined to the point that God allowed the Philistines to capture the tabernacle.^ And I don't need any "authority" (someone else's approval or your God) to make this conclusion; I am not discounting your evidence because up to this point in time there has simply been no evidence to discount.
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 ^ Yes, slavery taught the Israelites a lesson in humility when foreign nations were allowed to capture and subject them to slavery.
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 ^ I find it ironic that you criticize God for allowing evil, all the time talking of "fair" and "innocent" and all moral qualities that an atheist has no fixed standard for.
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 .The people of Israel then told Samuel the prophet that they needed to be governed by a permanent king, and Samuel appointed Saul to be their King.^ I think most people from the Judeo-Christian tradition posit, even if they're not aware of it, some permanent aspect of that "soul" that goes on, that is unchanging somehow.
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 ^ What did all the people do for 3000 years before they were told what happened and what the rules were........
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 ^ People have told me in the past that they do not want to chat with me any longer and I have respected their wishes, unless/until they started up the conversation again.
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 .When the people pressured Saul into going against a command conveyed to him by Samuel, God told Samuel to appoint David in his stead.^ Those people who go out and get remarried fall into the same divorce statistics as the one's doing it for the first time.
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 ^ Obedience to God's commandments based on love for Him and love for all human beings is what real religion is about.
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 ^ And Saul arose from the earth; and when his eyes were opened, he saw no man: but they led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus.
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The Western Wall in Jerusalem is a remnant of the wall encircling the Second Temple. The Temple Mount is the holiest site in Judaism.
.Once King David was established, he told the prophet Nathan that he would like to build a permanent temple, and as a reward for his actions, God promised David that he would allow his son, Solomon, to build first permanent temple and the throne would never depart from his children.^ Hey Bernie if you had two children, and a psycho was pointing a gun at your heads and told you to pick one child to live, or he would shoot them both, what would you do?” .
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 ^ While I have no doubt that the Amish are mistreating their children, by not educating them adequately, they are not likely to hijack aircraft and fly them into buildings.
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 ^ If the experience can not be achieved without "believing it" first, then I would be very suspicious of the person who told you about such things.
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.Rabbinic tradition holds that the details and interpretation of the law, which are called the Oral Torah or oral law, were originally an unwritten tradition based upon what God told Moses on Mount Sinai.^ It is based on the laws of God."
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 ^ It is based on the laws of God.
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 ^ There is a proper interpretation of God's laws.
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 .However, as the persecutions of the Jews increased and the details were in danger of being forgotten, these oral laws were recorded by Rabbi Judah haNasi (Judah the Prince) in the Mishnah, redacted circa 200 CE. The Talmud was a compilation of both the Mishnah and the Gemara, rabbinic commentaries redacted over the next three centuries.^ The synthesis he achieved was so impressive that it spawned three developments that dominated the next century of German and world history.
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 ^ Both of these useless mutations (actually one is just a part of the other) are being naturally selected out, not in.
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 ^ These historically-ignorant Christians do not understand the land was ceded to Jews after WW2 to protect them from future persecution (as the Catholic Church and Hitler almost succeeded in doing).
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 The Gemara originated in two major centers of Jewish scholarship, Palestine and Babylonia. Correspondingly, two bodies of analysis developed, and two works of Talmud were created. The older compilation is called the Jerusalem Talmud. It was compiled sometime during the fourth century in Israel. The Babylonian Talmud was compiled from discussions in the houses of study by the scholars Ravina I, Ravina II, and Rav Ashi by 500 C.E., although it continued to be edited later.
.Some critical scholars oppose the view that the sacred texts, including the Hebrew Bible, were divinely inspired.^ "Since there exists only one known example of a planet with advanced life forms, some critics view the Drake equation as unreliable.
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 .Many of these scholars accept the general principles of the documentary hypothesis and suggest that the Torah consists of inconsistent texts edited together in a way that calls attention to divergent accounts.^ I was only drawing to your attention the fact that debates with anti-theists/atheists has never ever been brought to a conclusion although debates have been carried on by many religious scholars for many centuries.
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 ^ "They also studied so-called Homo habilis, a group which many evolutionists argue should really be lumped together with the australopithecines such as ‘Lucy’.
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 ^ "In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days He has spoken to us by His Son..."
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 [69][70][71] .Many suggest that during the First Temple period, the people of Israel believed that each nation had its own god, but that their god was superior to other gods.^ Many people believe that we do not need saving.
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 ^ Many people believe in universal salvation.
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 ^ We are not people who don't believe in god.
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 [72][73] Some suggest that strict monotheism developed during the Babylonian Exile, perhaps in reaction to Zoroastrian dualism.[74] .In this view, it was only by the Hellenic period that most Jews came to believe that their god was the only god, and that the notion of a clearly bounded Jewish nation identical with the Jewish religion formed.^ Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son."
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 ^ As for how do you force someone to believe in God, you can’t, only God can?
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 ^ Only because you believe it is coming from God .
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.John Day argues that the origins of biblical Yahweh, El, Asherah, and Ba'al, may be rooted in earlier Canaanite religion, which was centered on a pantheon of gods much like the Greek Pantheon.^ The awareness of God as a mysterious personal entity behind the veil of worldly appearances, like the man behind the shower curtain in Psycho, has natural roots that anthropologists can explain.
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 ^ The God of monotheism, pantheism or panentheism, or the supreme deity of henotheistic religions, may be conceived of in various degrees of abstraction:.......
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 ^ We want you to join our group under this name if you do not believe in god and think that religion is harmless like us.
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Antiquity

Main articles: Ancient Israel and Judah, Babylonian captivity, Hellenistic Judaism, Hasmonean Kingdom, Iudaea Province, and Bar Kokhba revolt
The United Monarchy was established under Saul and continued under King David and Solomon with its capital in Jerusalem. After Solomon's reign the nation split into two kingdoms, the Kingdom of Israel (in the north) and the Kingdom of Judah (in the south). .The Kingdom of Israel was conquered by the Assyrian ruler Sargon II in the late 8th century BCE with many people from the capital Samaria being taken captive to Media and the Habor valley.^ That's a technique taught in many of the corporate education classes I have taken on managing and influencing people.
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 ^ This is independant of how many people follow being celibate Lets start there before we get to the cookies and soy milk part.
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 ^ Archaeology and secular history confirms many of the events, peoples, places the Bible speaks of as being of an accurate description.” .
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 .The Kingdom of Judah continued as an independent state until it was conquered by a Babylonian army in the early 6th century BCE, destroying the First Temple that was at the center of ancient Jewish worship.^ Just as that first Greek sailor did 28 centuries ago when he said: "atheos" to the temple prostitutes, we can be free from theistic businesses.
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 ^ So until you have some better evidence of this claim, I will continue to state that I am being completely honest, when I am being completely honest.
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 The Judean elite were exiled to Babylonia and this is regarded as the first Jewish Diaspora. .Later many of them returned to their homeland after the subsequent conquest of Babylonia by the Persians seventy years later, a period known as the Babylonian Captivity.^ Many will recall the Indian Guru from Poona, Rajneesh (later known as Osho) and his sexually liberating spirituality.
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 A new Second Temple was constructed, and old religious practices were resumed.
.During the early years of the Second Temple, the highest religious authority was a council known as the Great Assembly, led by Ezra of the Book of Ezra.^ The celebrated Jaina poet Somadeva wrote the Yaastilakachampu during the reign of this great Rshraka monarch in the aka era year 881.
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 ^ Other reiterations of Sathya Sai Babas claim to be the reincarnation of Shirdi Sai Baba, and his claims of Divinity [9] made during the early years of his Mission, are recorded in the volumes of Sathya Sai Speaks.
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 ^ Example: There are at least 12 known intermediate fossil stages since hominids branched off from great apes 6 million years ago.
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 .Among other accomplishments of the Great Assembly, the last books of the Bible were written at this time and the canon sealed.^ For the last time the bible is not proof of it self!
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 ^ To accomplish great achievements, during this time in history, men and women were gathered together by spiritual concept, or a declaration of the Word of God.

 ^ The Bible has been scrutinized and critiqued possibly more than any other book in history.
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 .Hellenistic Judaism spreads to Ptolemaic Egypt from the 3rd century BC, and becomes a notable religio licita throughout the Roman Empire, until its decline in the 3rd century parallel to the rise of Gnosticism and Early Christianity.^ The evidence is incredibly solid that Jesus of Nazareth did exist, that the books we call the Bible were remarkably preserved and that extraordinary events promoted the rise and spread of Christianity.
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 ^ There are also some 86,000 quotations from the early church fathers and several thousand Lectionaries (church-service books containing Scripture quotations used in the early centuries of Christianity).
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.After a Jewish revolt against Roman rule in 66 CE, the Romans all but destroyed Jerusalem.^ All the Roman or Jewish authorities would have to do to squash the belief in Christianity is to produce the dead body of the Savior and Christianity would be dead in the water shortly after it began to spread.
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 Following a second revolt, Jews were not allowed to enter the city of Jerusalem and most Jewish worship was forbidden by Rome. .Following the destruction of Jerusalem and the expulsion of the Jews, Jewish worship stopped being centrally organized around the Temple, prayer took the place of sacrifice, and worship was rebuilt around rabbis who acted as teachers and leaders of individual communities (see Jewish diaspora).^ "More allegations that no one was around to see or knows exactly what happened, except for God who made it all and understands it completely.
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 ^ If the standards change between societies or individuals or eras, then which standard is the acceptable standard, which standard is the one that is not contradictory to other standards, which standard can be logical, since as human beings we are able to communicate and that takes logic.
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 ^ For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.
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Historical Jewish groupings (to 1700)

.Around the first century CE there were several small Jewish sects: the Pharisees, Sadducees, Zealots, Essenes, and Christians.^ There are also some 86,000 quotations from the early church fathers and several thousand Lectionaries (church-service books containing Scripture quotations used in the early centuries of Christianity).
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 After the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE, these sects vanished. .Christianity survived, but by breaking with Judaism and becoming a separate religion; the Pharisees survived but in the form of Rabbinic Judaism (today, known simply as "Judaism").^ (Christianity, Judaism, Islam) Religion is a problem in our society.
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 ^ But claiming that religion, in the form of Christianity through God, is the origin of moral behavior is similar to claiming public high schools are the creators of knowledge, information and wisdom.
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 ^ Not to mention that atheism is in danger of becoming simply another religion when it comports itself as a movement.
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 The Sadducees rejected the divine inspiration of the Prophets and the Writings, relying only on the Torah as divinely inspired. .Consequently, a number of other core tenets of the Pharisees' belief system (which became the basis for modern Judaism), were also dismissed by the Sadducees.^ But in reality, Communism became an extreme dogmatic belief system (not unlike religion in certain circumstances) that was based on irrational beliefs about the well-being of humans.
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 ^ It is, at its core, a system of applying brutal honesty to your view of reality, of letting go of your preconceptions of the very core of our way of seeing things (self, other, things).
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 ^ Religions modulate our morality in different ways, as the AG trinity shows even before we move on to Hindu and other belief systems.
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 (The Samaritans practiced a similar religion, which is traditionally considered separate from Judaism.)
Like the Sadducees who relied only on the Torah, some Jews in the 8th and 9th centuries rejected the authority and divine inspiration of the oral law as recorded in the Mishnah (and developed by later rabbis in the two Talmuds), relying instead only upon the Tanakh. These included the Isunians, the Yudganites, the Malikites, and others. .They soon developed oral traditions of their own, which differed from the rabbinic traditions, and eventually formed the Karaite sect.^ By thus bonding themselves deliberately and emotionally into this tradition, they are transcending their personal selves and developing affective bonds to the generations, which is to say to the species.
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 Karaites exist in small numbers today, mostly living in Israel. Rabbinical and Karaite Jews each hold that the others are Jews, but that the other faith is erroneous.
Over time Jews developed into distinct ethnic groups—amongst others, the Ashkenazi Jews (of central and Eastern Europe), the Sephardi Jews (of Spain, Portugal, and North Africa), the Beta Israel of Ethiopia and the Yemenite Jews, from the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula. .This split is cultural, and is not based on any doctrinal dispute, although the distance did result in minor differences in practice and prayers.^ Although their raids did not result in the extension of the Rshraka empire to the Ganga valley, they brought rich plunder, and added to the fame of the Rshtrakas.
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Persecutions

Main articles: Persecution of Jews, Antisemitism, and History of antisemitism
Antisemitism arose during the Middle Ages, in the form of persecutions, pogroms, forced conversion, expulsions, social restrictions and ghettoization.
This was different in quality to any repressions of Jews in ancient times. .Ancient repression was politically motivated and Jews were treated no differently than any other ethnic group would have been.^ But that is religion, no different than any other religion, fundamentally.
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 ^ I would wager no one on this blog is a “sheep” and I will bet dollars for doughnuts most of us would agree more with what Sam Harris represents than less.
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 ^ He has no ability to tell anyone why they are wrong other than at the point of a gun or by bullying the weaker “animal” in any manner that gets the job done.
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 .With the rise of the Churches, attacks on Jews became motivated instead by theological considerations specifically deriving from Christian views about Jews and Judaism.^ I am talking about a hypothetical theocracy under Christian rule instead of the type of constitutional democracies we see in western societies.
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 ^ Then we can all still go to church, and preach about love thy neighbor, and have bake sales and we can all call ourselves Christians and not believe in anything supernatural.
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 ^ These historically-ignorant Christians do not understand the land was ceded to Jews after WW2 to protect them from future persecution (as the Catholic Church and Hitler almost succeeded in doing).
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Hasidism

Main article: Hasidic Judaism
Hasidic Judaism was founded by Yisroel ben Eliezer (1700–1760), also known as the Ba'al Shem Tov (or Besht). .It originated in a time of persecution of the Jewish people, when European Jews had turned inward to Talmud study; many felt that most expressions of Jewish life had become too "academic", and that they no longer had any emphasis on spirituality or joy.^ Life will no longer be supported.
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 ^ The origins of life are not a one time occurrence.
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 ^ Today, we can morally change our behavior towards people because we no longer see them as possessed by the Devil, or as witches or savages from a different species altogether.
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 .His disciples attracted many followers; they themselves established numerous Hasidic sects across Europe.^ I have come across many priests, and it was, in the beginning, a great shock to me that they are people who know nothing about religion; they are the people who know nothing of prayer; they are the people who have never meditated.
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 ^ LJ: “If you mean that absolute authority requires a person to follow all of God’s laws (there are so many and they are so contrary),” .
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 ^ Vijay Nagara kingdom was established in 1346 A.D. Though kings of this kingdom were Champions of Brahmanical religion, they followed the policy of religious toleration.
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 .Hasidic Judaism eventually became the way of life for many Jews in Europe.^ Ironically, there were so many Jews in Germany because Germany had been so welcoming to them compared with the rest of Europe.
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 .Waves of Jewish immigration in the 1880s carried it to the United States.^ I don't know if the United States had the same kind of immigration patterns as Canada.
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.Early on, there was a serious schism between Hasidic and non-Hasidic Jews.^ The early constitutional framers, similar in perspective as Witherspoon, were convinced that there was an intrinsic connection between morality and good government.
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 ^ For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile - the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on Him, for, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."
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 ^ Between a living cell and the most highly ordered non-biological system, such as a crystal or a snowflake, there is a chasm as vast and absolute as it is possible to conceive....
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 European Jews who rejected the Hasidic movement were dubbed by the Hasidim as Misnagdim, (lit. "opponents"). .Some of the reasons for the rejection of Hasidic Judaism were the overwhelming exuberance of Hasidic worship, its untraditional ascriptions of infallibility and alleged miracle-working to their leaders, and the concern that it might become a messianic sect.^ But as satisfying as it is, I do have some concern remaining, over its efficacy, which is really the only reason of developing an atheist communication I'm personally interested in.
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 ^ That is why I am passionate in voicing my concerns about some of the ways that they are choosing to represent the cause of reason.
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 ^ In a mind detached from cookies and soymilk I might entertain the idea of having some after work.
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 .Since then differences between the Hasidim and their opponents have slowly diminished and both groups are now considered part of Haredi Judaism.^ "Both the kind of matter and the particular matter is different between me and, for example, a meteorite."
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 ^ Should this group consider part of it's mission to hold a position against the interest in, and experimentation with, things like non-religious non-supernatural meditation?
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 ^ Should this group consider part of its mission to hold a position against the interest in, and experimentation with, things like non-religious non-supernatural meditation?"
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The Enlightenment and Reform Judaism

Main articles: Haskalah and Reform Judaism
.In the late 18th century CE, Europe was swept by a group of intellectual, social and political movements known as the Enlightenment.^ You, my dear atheist, have bought into the Enlightenment of the 18th century, which is opposed to anything supernatural.
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 ^ I would like to eventually separate myself from these people as a political and social movement.
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 .The Enlightenment led to reductions in the European laws that prohibited Jews to interact with the wider secular world, thus allowing Jews access to secular education and experience.^ Thus Jews became non-citizens with no rights under the law.
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 ^ But I argue that most of the world is not quite like you, who is obviously educated, well-informed, financially well-off and secular in your views.
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 A parallel Jewish movement, Haskalah or the "Jewish Enlightenment", began, especially in Central Europe, in response to both the Enlightenment and these new freedoms. .It placed an emphasis on integration with secular society and a pursuit of non-religious knowledge such as reason.^ It is not the religious individuals (exluding the mentally ill) unassociated with any church or other religious movement who pose a problem for society, especially secular society; it is the churches etc.
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 ^ That it is useless in secular society, because it can not be completely separated from it's religious origin?
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 ^ Reason can be flawed, and to have such an unbending faith in reason can be just as misguided as an unbending faith in religious bad thinking.
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 .The thrust and counter-thrust between supporters of Haskalah and more traditional Jewish concepts eventually led to the formation of a number of different branches of Judaism: Haskalah supporters founded Reform Judaism and Liberal Judaism, while traditionalists founded what is called Orthodox Judaism, and Jews seeking a balance between the two sides founded Masorti and Conservative Judaism.^ The differences between the two are enormous as to their validity.
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 ^ Big difference between the two.
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 ^ Number 1 is calling a rose by a different name.
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 .A number of smaller groups came into being as well.^ All things came into being ...
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 ^ I will drop this label as Sam suggests for fear of being lumped into a group with Claudia.
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 ^ Why should I have reason to believe that something that has a beginning had no cause or that something that wasn't came into being.
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Spectrum of observance

.Judaism has spread to all corners of the world.^ The major religions of the world, such as Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism are all imperialistic and seek to spread their views and ethics and power as wide as possible.
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 Seen here is a synagogue in downtown Mumbai.
.Countries such as the United States, Israel, Canada, United Kingdom, Argentina and South Africa contain large Jewish populations.^ And that is exactly what the United States, Germany, France, Austria, Japan, England, Italy, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and other Western countries' armed forces, did.
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 ^ Keep in mind that in both Canada and the United States, living on a commune is legal.
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 .Jewish religious practice varies widely through all levels of observance.^ "Conceptions of God can vary widely, despite the use of the same term for them all.
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 .According to the 2001 edition of the National Jewish Population Survey, in the United States' Jewish community—the world's second largest—4.3 million Jews out of 5.1 million had some sort of connection to the religion.^ People who took LSD claimed to go into some sort of enlightened state, but that sort of activity is now generally regarded as a false experience.
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 ^ Paul B. So ya think there might be some liberal religions out there for us Atheists?
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 ^ When I pull something out of the maybe pile I sort it into some other another pile, even if it is only the "maybe yes" or "maybe no" pile.
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  • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Of that population of connected Jews, 80% participated in some sort of Jewish religious observance, but only 48% belonged to a synagogue.^ George Orwell said that for the thinking man there are only three choices: there is the Catholic Church, or some sort of political movement,...
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 ^ The attributes that are spoken of as belonging to God only, and in some passages referring to the Father, are also spoken of as belonging to Jesus.
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  • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ When I pull something out of the maybe pile I sort it into some other another pile, even if it is only the "maybe yes" or "maybe no" pile.
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  • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
.Birth rates for American Jews have dropped from 2.0 to 1.7. [78] (Replacement rate is 2.1.) Intermarriage rates range from 40-50% in the US, and only about a third of children of intermarried couples are raised as Jews.^ Of 40 or so friends that I can think of off hand, none of them believe in god, but only about 2 of them refer to themselves as atheists.
  • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
  • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ My idea is for Gov to educate and provide knowledge to people about successful ways to raise healthy and well-adjusted children.
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  • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I think the third option is the only one open to us; the first will lead to disaster, the second will not stand long in the courts.
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  • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 Due to intermarriage and low birth rates, the Jewish population in the US shrank from 5.5 million in 1990 to 5.1 million in 2001. This is indicative of the general population trends among the Jewish community in the Diaspora, but a focus on total population obscures growth trends in some denominations and communities, such as Haredi Judaism. .The Baal teshuva movement is a movement of Jews who have "returned" to religion or become more observant.^ Not to mention that atheism is in danger of becoming simply another religion when it comports itself as a movement.
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  • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Now, it is not often that I find myself in a room full of people who are more or less guaranteed to agree with me on the subject of religion.
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  • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ "The more one studies palaeontology, the more certain one becomes that evolution is based on faith alone; exactly the same sort of faith which it is necessary to have when one encounters the great mysteries of religion."
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Judaism and other religions

Christianity and Judaism

Main article: Christianity and Judaism
See also: Judeo-Christian, Christianity and antisemitism, Judaism's view of Jesus, Cultural and historical background of Jesus, and Christian-Jewish reconciliation
.Historians and theologians regularly review the changing relationship between some Christian groups and the Jewish people; the article on Christian-Jewish reconciliation studies one recent issue.^ You are the one, as an atheist, who is saying 'it is so because I say it is so' or 'it is so because the majority says it is so', and the majority is never wrong, regardless of how many times they change their mind on a certain issue.
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 ^ If the standards change between societies or individuals or eras, then which standard is the acceptable standard, which standard is the one that is not contradictory to other standards, which standard can be logical, since as human beings we are able to communicate and that takes logic.
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  • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ This standing at his side implies an intimate relationship between Paul and the Lord, one that could only happen to someone who shared the presence of the Lord, whether that be by vision, as so often happened in the OT or physically as some of the passages suggest.
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Islam and Judaism

Main article: Islam and Judaism
See also: History of the Jews under Muslim rule and Islam and antisemitism
Islam and Judaism have a complex relationship. .Traditionally Jews living in Muslim lands, known as dhimmis, were allowed to practice their religion and to administer their internal affairs, but subject to certain conditions.^ Reports of this kind coming out of the Muslim communities living in the West should worry us, before anything else about religion worries us.
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 ^ I never said that they shouldn't, any more than you are saying that people shouldn't be allowed to practice religion.
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 ^ He wrote a book(s) (that he makes his living from), stating his opinion on certain subjects.
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 [79] They had to pay the jizya (a per capita tax imposed on free adult non-Muslim males) to the Muslim government.[79] .Dhimmis had an inferior status under Islamic rule.^ This film is a documentary containing interviews with Christians as well as exclusive footage showing how dangerous their situation is under Islamic rule.
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 ^ Although they may keep their original faith, their status becomes dhimmi (a "protected," yet inferior non-Muslim status).
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 ^ It is a protection tax levied on non-Muslims living under Islamic regimes, confirming their legal status.

 .They had several social and legal disabilities such as prohibitions against bearing arms or giving testimony in courts in cases involving Muslims.^ California’s high-profile federal lawsuit against Proposition 8, which begins in court on January 11, appears to be about creating a federal case for same sex marriage.
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 ^ In any case, hordes of alchemists and magicians streamed into the Han courts where they attempted to refine crass material substances and make men immortal.
  • Spirituality Information - World Religions - Taoism 14 January 2010 9:19 UTC www.majikalwishes.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Learn from other sources such as pastors, books, and other Christians; but always check what they say against what the Bible teaches and always side with what is written there.
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 [80] Many of the disabilities were highly symbolic. .The most degrading one was the requirement of distinctive clothing, not found in the Qur'an or hadith but invented in early medieval Baghdad; its enforcement was highly erratic.^ This article, by Sam Harris, fits this experience exactly and I found it one of the most moving and rewarding I have read for a very long time.
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 ^ If you take Hitler's Germany, it was one of the most highly advanced, literate societies, if not the most of its day.
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 ^ Dennett also writes in Freedom Evolves that "Human freedom, is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species, us."
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 [81] .Jews rarely faced martyrdom or exile, or forced compulsion to change their religion, and they were mostly free in their choice of residence and profession.^ It is religion who says that they would rather kill and be killed then change from the myths of the past to the any new order of the future!!!!!
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 ^ YOU: "It is religion who says that they would rather kill and be killed then change from the myths of the past to the any new order of the future!!!!!"
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 ^ Because when one subscribes to any one religion, they are forced to accept, and find rational explanations for, some of the most irrational, nay abominable, words ever written by humans.
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  • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 [82] Indeed, the period 712-1066 under the Ummayads and the Abbasids has been called the Golden age of Jewish culture in Spain. The notable examples of massacre of Jews include the killing or forcibly conversion of them by the rulers of the Almohad dynasty in Al-Andalus in the 12th century.[83] Notable examples of the cases where the choice of residence was taken away from them includes confining Jews to walled quarters (mellahs) in Morocco beginning from the 15th century and especially since the early 19th century.[84] .There were some forced conversions in the 12th century under the Almohad dynasty of North Africa and al-Andalus as well as in Persia.^ It is a sense of well-being that life can offer me some positives and I am going to jump at those opportunities when they are there for me.
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 ^ Well I would argue there is some value in the Bible.
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 ^ YOU said: "Well, then you could say, “Unless you have some evidence there isn’t why don’t you believe in God?” .
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 [85]
Standard antisemitic themes have become commonplace in the propaganda of Arab Islamic movements such as Hizbullah and Hamas, in the pronouncements of various agencies of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and even in the newspapers and other publications of Refah Partisi.[86]

Syncretic movements incorporating Judaism

.There are some organizations that combine elements of Judaism with those of other religions.^ Is there some other kind of Atheist?
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 ^ There has to be some organizing principle.
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 ^ If he chooses to break those laws, just like in any other society, there are consequences (And without Christ in the long run, eternal ones)."
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 .The most well-known of these is the Messianic Judaism, a Christian movement which was developed as a better attempt at evangelizing Jews.^ For better or for worse I think this clarifies my position (stand) in the midst of all these atheist nuances, as well as anything.
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 ^ These articles only take a few minutes to read and are better put together than I can, but express the Christian view of man.
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 ^ From Jews beget christians and muslims beget catholics, protestants,evangelicals,babtists beget mormons,etc(i left out bunches).
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 .Its members include ethnic Jews, but mostly gentiles (non-Jews), historically sponsored and funded almost exclusively by Christian Evangelical organizations, who promote the belief that Jews have to accept Jesus as the Messiah and God.^ There will be trouble for every human being who does evil: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.
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 ^ Evangelical Christians who believe so strongly in the sanctity of life that they blow up abortion clinics and kill doctors?
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 ^ Lets just face the facts here, whether you call it killing or murder, for Jew or non-Jew the bible's message is clear killing and murder are just fine with god...........
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  • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 .These groups typically combine Christian theology and Christology with varying degrees of Jewish customs and religious practices.^ Both these men are pathetic examples of a typical Christian.
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 ^ "Both these men are pathetic examples of a typical Christian.
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 ^ Unfortunately, many more billions of people who live under repressive governments or tribes that practice these pious (religious) beliefs do not have these freedoms.
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  • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 .The most controversial of these groups is the American Jews for Jesus which actively proselytizes ethnic Jews through numerous missionary campaigns in major American cities.^ Sam says that are the most controversial to the majority of people, are the things I find to be entirely correct.
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.Other examples of syncretism include Judeo-Paganists, a loosely-organized set of Jews who incorporate pagan or Wiccan beliefs with some Jewish religious practices, like Messianic Judaism; Jewish Buddhists, another loosely-organized group that incorporates elements of Asian spirituality in their faith; and some Renewal Jews who borrow freely and openly from Buddhism, Sufism, Native American religion, and other faiths.^ Some people like myself have the belief in a Deity but are non religious.
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 ^ This is not a faith or belief in any religion or god.
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 ^ Most monks, of any religion, whether christianity or buddhism, actually live perpetually with other monks.
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.The Kabbalah Centre, which employs teachers from multiple religions, is a New Age movement that claims to popularize the kabbalah, the Jewish esoteric tradition.^ The AG suite of religions has become inextricably tangled in politics, which is our main reason for wanting to dump it and take up a new relationship with our genes.
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 ^ Only religion, people say, drives humans to behave inhumanly, such that the only possible benefit is for the dominion of the AG tradition itself.
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 ^ The AG religions are perhaps the purest expression in human cultural tradition of gene-driven behavior.
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See also


References

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  2. ^ AskOxford: Judaism
  3. ^ a b Judaism 101: The Patriarchs and the Origins of Judaism
  4. ^ Torah.org: What is the oral Torah?
  5. ^ Karaite Jewish University
  6. ^ Society for Humanistic Judaism
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  29. ^ "Maimonides’ 13 Foundations of Judaism". Mesora. http://www.mesora.org/13principles.html. "However if he rejects one of these fundamentals he leaves the nation and is a denier of the fundamentals and is called a heretic, a denier, etc." 
  30. ^ Rabbi Mordechai Blumenfeld. "Maimonides, 13 Principles of Faith". Aish HaTorah. http://www.aish.com/sp/ph/48923722.html. "According to the Rambam, their acceptance defines the minimum requirement necessary for one to relate to the Almighty and His Torah as a member of the People of Israel" 
  31. ^ Ronald L. Eisenberg (2004). The JPS guide to Jewish traditions. Jewish Publication Society. p. 509. ISBN 0827607601. http://books.google.co.il/books?id=_qGHi_9K154C&pg=RA13-PA509&lpg=RA13-PA509&dq=Maimonides'+thirteen+principles+of+faith&source=bl&ots=TJOnG20ODX&sig=wojSBmSHzGwOIQsqzs3tf5M-1bY&hl=en&ei=IE_jSZTULIaGsAa98qzfCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4. "The concept of "dogma" is ... not a basic idea in Judaism." 
  32. ^ Dogma in Medieval Jewish Thought, Menachem Kellner.
  33. ^ Hebrew4Christians: The Thirteen Principles of the Jewish Faith
  34. ^ "What Do Jews Believe?". Mechon Mamre. http://www.mechon-mamre.org/jewfaq/beliefs.htm. "The closest that anyone has ever come to creating a widely-accepted list of Jewish beliefs is Maimonides' thirteen principles of faith." 
  35. ^ The JPS guide to Jewish traditions, page 510, "The one that eventually secured almost universal acceptance was the Thirteen Priciples of faith"
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  37. ^ The Oxford English Dictionary.
  38. ^ Boyarin, Daniel (October 14, 1994). "Introduction". A radical Jew: Paul and the politics of identity. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. pp. 13–38. ISBN [[Special:BookSources/0-520-08592-2 LCCN 93-36269|0-520-08592-2 LCCN 93-36269]]. http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft7w10086w&chunk.id=introduction&toc.depth=1&toc.id=introduction&brand=ucpress. Retrieved 2006-06-15. "Paul was motivated by a Hellenistic desire for the One, which among other things produced an ideal of a universal human essence, beyond difference and hierarchy. This universal humanity, however, was predicated (and still is) on the dualism of the flesh and the spirit, such that while the body is particular, marked through practice as Jew or Greek, and through anatomy as male or female, the spirit is universal. Paul did not, however, reject the body—as did, for instance, the gnostics—but rather promoted a system whereby the body had its place, albeit subordinated to the spirit. Paul's anthropological dualism was matched by a hermeneutical dualism as well. Just as the human being is divided into a fleshy and a spiritual component, so also is language itself. It is composed of outer, material signs and inner, spiritual significations. When this is applied to the religious system that Paul inherited, the physical, fleshy signs of the Torah, of historical Judaism, are re-interpreted as symbols of that which Paul takes to be universal requirements and possibilities for humanity." 
  39. ^ Boyarin, Daniel (October 14, 1994). "Answering the Mail". A radical Jew: Paul and the politics of identity. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. pp. 244. ISBN [[Special:BookSources/0-520-08592-2 LCCN 93-36269|0-520-08592-2 LCCN 93-36269]]. http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft7w10086w&chunk.id=ch10&toc.depth=1&toc.id=ch10&brand=ucpress. Retrieved 2006-06-15. "Jewishness disrupts the very categories of identity, because it is not national, not genealogical, not religious, but all of these, in dialectical tension with one another." 
  40. ^ Weiner, Rebecca (2007). "Who is a Jew?". Jewish Virtual Library. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/whojew1.html. Retrieved 2007-10-06. 
  41. ^ Reform's Position On...What is unacceptable practice?
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  44. ^ Mark Twain ("Concerning The Jews", Harper's Magazine, 1899, The Complete Essays of Mark Twain, Doubleday [1963] pg. 249
  45. ^ Robert Gordis. "Torah MiSinai:Conservative Views". A Modern Approach to a Living Halachah. Masorti World. Archived from the original on 2007-07-13. http://web.archive.org/web/20070713183805/http://masortiworld.org/faq/theology-+beliefs/torah-misinai.html. "The Torah is an emanation of God... This conception does not mean, for us, that the process of revalation consisted of dictation by God." 
  46. ^ "Conservative Judaism". Jewlicious. http://www.jewlicious.com/2005/06/conservative-judaism/. "We therefore understand this term as a metaphor to mean that the Torah is divine and that it reflects God’s will." 
  47. ^ "Tefillin", "The Book of Jewish Knowledge", Nathan Ausubel, Crown Publishers, NY, 1964, p.458)
  48. ^ "Shabbat". Judaism 101. April 12, 2006. http://www.jewfaq.org/shabbat.htm. 
  49. ^ a b c d e f g Judaism 101: Kashrut
  50. ^ Chaya Shuchat. "The Kosher Pig?". http://www.meaningfullife.com/torah/parsha/vayikra/shemini/The_Kosher_Pig.php. "It is also the most quintessentially “treif” of animals, with its name being nearly synonymous with non-kosher ... Although far from alone in the litany of non-kosher animals, the pig seems to stand in a class of its own." 
  51. ^ Tamar Levy, St. Louis, MO – Block Yeshiva High School, Grade 9 | OUkosher.org
  52. ^ Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh De'ah, (87:3)
  53. ^ Elliot Dorff, "On the Use of All Wines"PDF (2.19 MB), YD 123:1.1985, pp. 11–15.
  54. ^ Kashrut Facts
  55. ^ Judaism 101: Kashrut: Jewish Dietary Laws
  56. ^ Vayyiqra (Leviticus) 11
  57. ^ Chabad: Judaism and the Art of Eating
  58. ^ Jewish life in WWII England: "there was a...special dispensation...that allowed Jews serving in the armed services to eat "non-kosher" when no Jewish food was available; that deviation from halacha was allowed 'in order to save a human life including your own.'"
  59. ^ Y. Lichtenshtein M.A.. "Weekly Pamphlet #805". Bar-Ilan University, Faculty of Jewish Studies, Rabbinical office. http://www.biu.ac.il/JH/Parasha/shmini/lict.html. "...certain prohibitions become allowed without a doubt because of lifethreatening circumstances, like for example eating non-kosher food" 
  60. ^ a b Vayyiqra (Leviticus) 15.
  61. ^ Bamidbar (Numbers) 19.
  62. ^ Vayyiqra (Leviticus) 22:6.
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  64. ^ OU.org Torah tidbits
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  67. ^ Encyclopedia.com: Karaites
  68. ^ Wasserfall, Rahel (1999). Women and water: menstruation in Jewish life and law. Brandeis University Press. 
  69. ^ Yehezkal Kauffman, The Religion of Israel
  70. ^ Robert Alter The Art of Biblical Poetry
  71. ^ E. A. Speiser Genesis (The Anchor Bible)
  72. ^ John Bright A History of Israel
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  74. ^ Ephraim Urbach The Sages
  75. ^ Shaye Cohen The beginnings of Jewishness
  76. ^ John Day Yahweh and the Gods and Goddesses of Canaan, page 68.
  77. ^ Langmuir, Gavin (1993). History, religion, and antisemitism. University of California Press. ISBN 0520077288. 
  78. ^ This is My Beloved, This is My Friend: A Rabbinic Letter on Intimate relations, p. 27, Elliot N. Dorff
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  86. ^ Muslim Anti-Semitism by Bernard Lewis (Middle East Quarterly) June 1998

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.See also Torah database for links to more judaism e-texts.^ As for "US" if you studied more you would see that bases of Judaism was polytheism and that Genesis comes from multiple traditions .
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 ^ Not surprisingly, our present day atmosphere has many, many more times the amount of CO2 than it did in past ages.
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 ^ Yes, there is more than one version of the 10 commandments.
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  • The fundamental principle of the Hebraic commonwealth was that there are great moral laws not dependent on the will of monarch, oligarchy, aristocracy or public assembly.^ Morality is a good thing --except when taken to fundamental extremes---but it does not prove there is a God.
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    • Lyman Abbott, Life and Literature of Ancient Hebrews (1910)
  • Mankind, East and West, Christian and Muslim, accepted the Jewish conviction that there is only one G-d.^ I contend that there is only one.
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     ^ There is only One who does.
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     ^ There is only one true faith.
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     Today it is polytheism that is so difficult to understand, that is so unthinkable.
    • T. R. Grover, The Ancient World, p. .186
  • It is against their own insoluble problem of being human that the dull and base in humanity are in revolt in anti-Semitism.^ But in reality, Communism became an extreme dogmatic belief system (not unlike religion in certain circumstances) that was based on irrational beliefs about the well-being of humans.
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     ^ Dogmatism is irrational when it acts violently against the best interest of human beings.
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     ^ Obedience to God's commandments based on love for Him and love for all human beings is what real religion is about.
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     .Judaism, nevertheless, together with Hellenism and Christianity is an inalienable component of our Christian Western civilization, the eternal "call to Sinai" against which humanity again and again rebels.^ Standing on the shoulders of giants, I see a wider landscape in which this book is one among many that together define our civilization.
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     ^ On this planet of ours human culture and civilization are indissolubly bound up with the presence of the Aryan.
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     ^ There is no question that our so-called Christian nation, whether explicitly in the name of Christianity or not, has committed the MOST killing among all nations in my lifetime (born in 1957).
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    • Herman Rauschning, The Beast From the Abyss, pp. .155-56
  • Throughout our history there have been weaker elements who have shirked the sacrifices which Judaism entailed.^ There is no boasting on our part before God, but thankfulness in His mercy to us who deserve His justice for doing what is wrong in His sight.
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     ^ Admittedly, there are people who will never adopt ideologies condoning the collective "goodness" but history has shown that the majority of people do indeed understand and practice "good".
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     ^ Could it be that you think that your your stance is the purest form of atheism, and any who claim that there are unanswered questions about our existence, are sub-atheists?
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     .They have been swallowed, long since, in the great majority; only the more stalwart have carried on the traditions of their ancestors, and can now look back with pride upon their superb heritage.^ To what do they now look?
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     ^ Who was right, the majority back then or the majority now?
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     ^ When I look at a fossil in the present I have something that existed in the past, but since I was not there, there are only certain truths and facts I can deduce from this artifact.
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     Are we to be numbered with the weak majority, or with the stalwart minority? It is for ourselves to decide. .
    • Cecil Roth, A History of the Jews (Oxford University Press, 1961) p.423
  • Far from having become 1900 years ago a stagnant or dried-up religion, as Christian theology declares, Judaism has ever remained "a river of God full of living waters," which, while running within the river-bed of a single nation, has continued to feed anew the great streams of human civilization.^ Most monks, of any religion, whether christianity or buddhism, actually live perpetually with other monks.
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     ^ One only need to read Genesis 1:1 - 1:10 to see that there was a water universe of chaos preexisting that god created the heaven and earth within.
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     ^ "As far as we know, none of the other living creatures are running around wondering why they are here?
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  • .Next to God's unity the most essential and characteristic doctrine of Judaism is that concerning God's relation to man.^ Lenin said "dialectics is the doctrine of the unity of opposites" and most logicians regard it as absurd.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ For the most part religion is man's attempt at knowing God in which he/she invents a god that is suitable to his/her view of life based on earning the favor of that god by what he/she does.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ "For the most part religion is man's attempt at knowing God in which he/she invents a god that is suitable to his/her view of life based on earning the favor of that god by what he/she does."
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     .Heathenism degraded man by making him kneel before brutes and the works of his hand: Judaism declared man to be made in the image of God, the crown and culmination of God's creation, the appointed ruler of the earth, and vicegerent of God
  • It was … declared improper to follow the custom of the Jews in the celebration of this holy festival, because, their hands having been stained with crime, the minds of these wretched men are necessarily blinded.^ God has created man in His image and likeness, with man having the ability to reason and make choices.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ The creation was made, God was not for He made it.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     … .Let us, then, have nothing in common with the Jews, who are our adversaries.^ And let us not forget that god created everything and that includes HELL, the greatest negative of all, the gun that he holds at our heads.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ "The one true God is mentioned in places like Genesis 1:26, "Let US make man in our image, in our likeness..."
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ We are all atheists, but do we want those who believe in "no reason" without sufficient evidence presenting our case for us?
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ... avoiding all contact with that evil way. … who, after having compassed the death of the .Lord, being out of their minds, are guided not by sound reason, but by an unrestrained passion, wherever their innate madness carries them.^ Should I not argue or reason with them out of concern for their eternal well-being to show them the error and destructiveness of their ways and point them to the truth?
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ It seems reasonable to believe free will---by having the ability to weigh data and information in my mind and make logical and sound judgments and choices--carries some of the weight as well.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ There is a quote from Richard Dawkins that I find illuminating, "There's this thing called being so open-minded your brains drop out."
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     … a people so utterly depraved. … .Therefore, this irregularity must be corrected, in order that we may no more have any thing in common with those parricides and the murderers of our Lord.^ Since he is a Jew there is no new covenant, therefore he is bound by two things, that god is only for the Jews and the Jews are under the laws of the OT." .
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Like Jesus is lord, God is powerful, there is no reason for our existence, meditation is useless.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Just because genetically we are similar in make up to a chimpanzee does not mean that we descended from an ape like creature, just that the chimp depends on things in common with us in order to share in our environment.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     … no single point in common with the perjury of the Jews.
  • Most firmly hold and never doubt that not only pagans, but also all Jews, all heretics, and all schismatics who finish this life outside of the Catholic Church, will go into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.^ We are only going in circles again, so never mind.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ LJ, you remind me of those people who think that if they legalize marijuana, the people will go crazy and start smoking pot all over the place.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and whoever comes to Me I will never drive away…And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that I shall lose none of all that He has given Me.” (John 6:37, 39) .
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
  • Jews and Saracens of both sexes in every Christian province must be distinguished from the Christian by a difference of dress. .On Passion Sunday and the last three days of Holy Week they may not appear in public.^ Keeping the Sabbath day holy: Using one day in the week to rest, pray and be with the family, keeps the family and sense of community; .
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Children were often treated as "slaves" by employing them in factories where they worked under the harshest conditions for 12 or more hours per day --7 days a week..."
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Children were often treated as "slaves" by employing them in factories where they worked under the harshest conditions for 12 or more hours per day --7 days a week.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
  • Jews are not to be given public offices. Anyone instrumental in doing this is to be punished. .A Jewish official is to be denied all intercourse with Christians.^ All the Roman or Jewish authorities would have to do to squash the belief in Christianity is to produce the dead body of the Savior and Christianity would be dead in the water shortly after it began to spread.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Some of the people on this forum are still asking questions as to the relevance of Christianity, all the time denying it of course, since they believe their own worldview is true.
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     .
  • But the greatest of all the reformers of the depraved religion of his own country, was Jesus of Nazareth.^ I have made the effort of doing this anew for the central assertions of Jesus of Nazareth, courtesy of Pope Benedict XVI, and concluded that most modern Christians have got it all wrong.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Religion knows this all to well, that's why they want children as young as they can get so they can drive their own fears and myths into them!
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ YOU: "Religion knows this all to well, that's why they want children as young as they can get so they can drive their own fears and myths into them!
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     .
  • His [Jesus'] object was the reformation of some articles in the religion of the Jews, as taught by Moses.^ I know of Mr Morrison, since for some years I was a member of the New York Academy of Sciences.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ October 31, 2007 12:24 PM Report Offensive Comment .
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Sam isn't just writing an op-ed piece for the New York Times.
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     That sect had presented for the object of their worship, a being of terrific character, cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust.
    • Thomas Jefferson, Letter to William Short, August 4, 1820, on his reason for compiling the Syllabus of an Estimate of the Merit of the Doctrines of Jesus. .Published in Thomas Jefferson: Writings, Merrill D. Peterson, ed., New York: Library of America, 1994, pp. 1435–1440.[1]
  • [A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions.^ Sam isn't just writing an op-ed piece for the New York Times.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ The debate about Christian America is whether the government has the right to establish a religion or laws that promote religious beliefs (such as the 10 commandments or prayer in schools.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ I have been inspired by Dennett's writings since 1980 and enjoyed talking with him more recently in New York and Oxford.
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     .They use fear to enslave us.^ They are useful in that they allow us to communicate with each other about our world, but they do not seem, yet anyway, to reveal the ultimate mode of reality of anything.
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     They are a monopoly for power and profit.
  • Every national church or religion has established itself by pretending some special mission from God, communicated to certain individuals. The Jews have their Moses; the Christians their Jesus Christ, their apostles and saints; and the Turks their Mahomet; as if the way to God was not open to every man alike.
    .Each of those churches shows certain books, which they call revelation, or the Word of God.^ In the new economy or covenant that was made with all peoples, those who are trusting in themselves will suffer the second death spoken of in the book of Revelations.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ I tell you these things in the hope Timmy that God will confirm in you through His word His calling to you to repent and believe the gospel.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ ME: "No, the onus of proof is on the atheist to show that the Bible is not in fact the word of God.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     The Jews say that their Word of God was given by God to Moses face to face; the Christians say, that their Word of God came by divine inspiration; and the Turks say, that their Word of God (the Koran) was brought by an angel from heaven. Each of those churches accuses the other of unbelief; and, for my own part, I disbelieve them all. .
  • "I will insist the Hebrews have [contributed] more to civilize men than any other nation.^ It has not been any more standard than other moralities."
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ It has not been any more standard than other moralities.
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ "For me, it is my belief in the divinity of Jesus that makes it more attractive than other religions" .
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     If I was an atheist and believed in blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations ... .They are the most glorious nation that ever inhabited this Earth.^ "From one man [Adam] He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live."
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determines the times set for them and the exact places where they should live."
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     The Romans and their empire were but a bubble in comparison to the Jews. .They have given religion to three-quarters of the globe and have influenced the affairs of mankind more and more happily than any other nation, ancient or modern."^ It has not been any more standard than other moralities."
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ It has not been any more standard than other moralities.
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ They have no more reason to be irresponsible, dispassionate, and cruel than any of us currently do.
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ~ John Adams (From a letter to F. A. Van der Kemp [Feb. .16, 1808] Pennsylvania Historical Society)
  • The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.^ You are more than a product Timmy.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ The vast majority of humans on this planet have a different interpretation than you do of the Bible.
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Doing so has made me an unbeliever in God and I can no more “believe” in God than I can believe I am a dog or cat.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     .No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this.^ Lindajean recognizes that intelligence does not come from rocks no matter how much rain falls on them to dissolve and mix chemicals together.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ As I said before, what evidence would you accept and the answer is none, no matter how convincing it is.
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Since you (I) don't believe in the supernatural that only leaves the natural, so no matter how hard it may be to understand, beauty can only be our minds.
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     … .For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.^ And if it is right, all other religions are wrong.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Most monks, of any religion, whether christianity or buddhism, actually live perpetually with other monks.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Science is the perfect tool to "measure and quantify" not only music and other arts but also religion because science just is the business of measuring and quantifying natural phenomena in all their variety.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     .And the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people.^ But that is religion, no different than any other religion, fundamentally.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ About atheists I am saying that we are no less governed by our genetic inheritance than other mortals.
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Today, we can morally change our behavior towards people because we no longer see them as possessed by the Devil, or as witches or savages from a different species altogether.
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     .As far as my experience goes, they are no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power.^ No one else can experience my subjective experiences.
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ They want to influence and power their belief into the forefront of thinking and yet are unwilling to provide an answer as to why it is true other than personal preference.
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ We experience the result, according to my, ahem, theory, as glimpsed (rather than understood) intimations of free will and divine presence.
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     Otherwise I cannot see anything 'chosen' about them.
  • Some fools in the desert
    With nothing else to do
    So scared of the dark
    They didn't know if they were coming or going
    So they invented me
    And they invented You
    And other fools keep it all going
    And growing
  • The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence, from Jerusalem, of a lunatic asylum.^ A third, more general meaning is the integral human life expressed in the world's religious traditions prior to modern times.
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
  • Judaism has some advantages over Christianity in that, for example, it does not proselytise—except among Jews—and it does not make the cretinous mistake of saying that the Messiah has already made his appearance.^ Does that make you a Christian?
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ The Bible is the Word of God, inerrant, because God does not make mistakes.
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ It does not say anywhere what was in the expanse of the heavens in the opening verses, except that the earth was formless and void.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     … .However, along with Islam and Christianity, it does insist that some turgid and contradictory and sometimes evil and mad texts, obviously written by fairly unexceptional humans, are in fact the word of god.^ The problem is that god does not need the human.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ What people do in the name of Christianity does not deny the truthfulness of God's Word.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Humans do have choice (as Peter keeps insisting) and I have to agree with him (minus the God stuff.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     .I think that the indispensable condition of any intellectual liberty is the realisation that there is no such thing.^ There is no need for this marriage thing.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ There is no such thing possible.
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ There is no such thing as right in such a case, just preference.
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     .
  • The Antichrist is probably a Jew alive in Israel today.^ I was listening to the Christopher Hitchens interview today and he holds to the Big Bang as being the acceptable theory, but it is a theory that has many problems.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ You: "I was listening to the Christopher Hitchens interview today and he holds to the Big Bang as being the acceptable theory, but it is a theory that has many problems."
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
  • Since Jesus came to the earth the first time 2,000 years ago as a Jewish male, many evangelicals believe the Antichrist will, by necessity, be a Jewish male. .This belief is 2,000 years old and has no anti-Semitic roots.^ That makes Christianity a religion that has its roots in something that is actually at least five thousand years old.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ I have continued my studies and helped form atheists groups for many years, I am 65 yrs old now and no I do not agree with Sam Harris.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ I suspect the lobotomy was performed because I held some egregious belief that I had a right to perform a lobotomy on a 5 year old or because I believed the 5 year old was deserving of it or would benefit from it.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     .This is simply historic and prophetic orthodox Christian doctrine that many theologians, Christian and non-Christian, have understood for two millennia.^ I do not think the Roman Catholic Church is teaching biblical Christianity in many areas of doctrine either, for I am from a Reformed perspective.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     .
    • Jerry Falwell, quoted in "Religion, Politics a Potent Mix for Jerry Falwell" by Steve Inskeep in Morning Edition on NPR (30 June 2006)
  • The god of Moses would call for other tribes, including his favorite one, to suffer massacre and plague and even extirpation, but when the grave closed over his victims he was essentially finished with them unless he remembered to curse their succeeding progeny.^ Without acts of love or compassion we would not survive one day in this world you claim was created by God.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ You will notice in Deuteronomy 28 that God lays down some stipulations for Israel to follow, as to whether they would receive blessings or curses.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ After all no one would ever think of taking harmless musings of god and mind powers and turn them in to a religion(s), would they?
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     Not until the advent of the Prince of Peace do we hear of the ghastly idea of further punishing and torturing the dead. .
  • "This is an exceedingly strange development, unexpected by all but the theologians.^ In contemplative mood, we can reflect on the envelope self that bounds all our best moments, and see it as an inkling of the greatness of God.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Hitchens' "God is not great" and Dawkins "The God delusion" .
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     .They have always accepted the word of the Bible: In the beginning God created heaven and earth...^ God has created all that is by the power of His word.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ The Bible says that God created everything by His spoken word.
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     [But] for the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; [and] as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries." ~ .Robert Jastrow (God and the Astronomers.^ Robert Jastrow, 'God and the Astronomers' (New York: W. W. Norton, 1978), 116 .
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     )
    • .
  • "...If statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race.^ The Bible has always taught that humans were created in the image and likeness of their Creator and therefore we are of one race, of one kind.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     It suggests a nebulous dim puff of stardust lost in the blaze of the Milky way. properly, the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of. .He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk.^ Most of what people say will go in one ear and out the other.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ In fact, he’ll see no ‘others’, no enemies, no evil nations or people to be wiped out altogether--- he’ll have transcended all limitations of time and space etc..
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     .His contributions to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers.^ Science is the perfect tool to "measure and quantify" not only music and other arts but also religion because science just is the business of measuring and quantifying natural phenomena in all their variety.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Scientists already get very involved with music via the science of acoustics and with visual art via computer graphics.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Science doesn’t try to explain or measure music or any other form of art by its standard.
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     .He has made a marvelous fight in this world, in all the ages; and had done it with his hands tied behind him.^ All that relates to or affects the life of a person: He saw his world collapse about him.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ "The LORD Almighty has sworn, 'Surely, as I have planned, so it will be, and as I have purposed, so will it stand...This is the plan determined for the whole world; this is the hand stretched out over all nations.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Bleak is 99% of the world suffering for all eternity in a torture zone created by a god as the price for not being good enough to worshiping for him for all eternity.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     He could be vain of himself, and be excused for it. ~ .Mark Twain (Concerning The Jews)
  • The Egyptian, the Babylonian, and the Persian rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, then faded to dream-stuff and passed away; the Greek and the Roman followed; and made a vast noise, and they are gone; other people have sprung up and held their torch high for a time, but it burned out, and they sit in twilight now, or have vanished.^ Here you are telling other people what they should do with their time.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ You are telling other people what they should be doing with their time.
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Lindajean: “We definitely do things out of love and choice but sometimes they require giving up some freedoms.
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     .The Jew saw them all, beat them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence, no infirmities of age, no weakening of his parts, no slowing of his energies, no dulling of his alert and aggressive mind.^ Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure that you also believe that all of this (the universe) has no beginning point, but rather it has just always been.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ For now the atheist can justify in his mind his sinful behavior by pretending that there is no evidence for God that he is aware of.
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ After all no one would ever think of taking harmless musings of god and mind powers and turn them in to a religion(s), would they?
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     .All things are mortal but the Jew; all other forces pass, but he remains.^ A discussion spurred on by mention of my atheist world view provides an opportunity for me to discuss my rational approach to all the other things.
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ He ordained that all things would come to pass according to His wisdom and glory, but sin precedes from men, not from God.
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ All the other explanations cannot make sense of these things."
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     What is the secret of his immortality?" ~ Mark Twain (Concerning The Jews)
  • "If we were forced to choose just one, there would be no way to deny that Judaism is the most important intellectual development in human history." ~ David Gelernter
  • "...it would be a mistake...to ascribe to Roman legal conceptions an undivided sway over the development of law and institutions during the Middle Ages... .The Laws of Moses as well as the laws of Rome contributed suggestions and impulse to the men and institutions which were to prepare the modern world; and if we could have but eyes to see...^ [To you too Timmy] Through Him everyone who believes is justified from everything you could not be justified from by the law of Moses.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ In an evolutionary world-view it was the strong exploiting the weak, just as rape or the law of the jungle could be as well in an evolutionary worldview.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ We could very well be living in a world right now where no one has used a nuclear device on anyone.
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     we should readily discover how very much besides religion we owe to the Jew." ~ .Woodrow Wilson
  • "Certainly, the world without the Jews would have been a radically different place.^ The world would be better without us.
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ The world would be a better place.
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Without acts of love or compassion we would not survive one day in this world you claim was created by God.
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     Humanity might have eventually stumbled upon all the Jewish insights. But we cannot be sure. .All the great conceptual discoveries of the human intellect seem obvious and inescapable once they had been revealed, but it requires a special genius to formulate them for the first time.^ If they nuke one city, we shall have a pretext to glaze over half the Middle East with radioactive silicate and thus bury the hotheads once and for all.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ But I do spend a little time every day, (usually in the shower, or the first half hour of lying in bed before sleep) pondering the great mystery of why is it all here?
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ In the Darwinian jungle of all possible gods, the A-god seems to have won among humans, but the holiness of that god is not a given.
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     The Jews had this gift. .To them we owe the idea of equality before the law, both divine and human; of the sanctity of life and the dignity of human person; of the individual conscience and so a personal redemption; of collective conscience and so of social responsibility; of peace as an abstract ideal and love as the foundation of justice, and many other items which constitute the basic moral furniture of the human mind.^ But so are most human ideals—think of true love or world peace.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Long before physicians had deemed it detrimental to drain the patient of his blood, the Bible had warned that the life of the person or creature is in the blood.
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Both had broken His commands, yet God chose (before the foundation of the world) to have mercy and compassion on Jacob and hold Esau accountable for his rebellion.
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     Without Jews it might have been a much emptier place." ~ Paul Johnson
  • "No ancient people have had a stranger history than the Jews. … .The history of no ancient people should be so valuable, if we could only recover it and understand it.^ Not only should we not present an image that is dismissive and critical of these people, we should lay out the red carpet and serve only the best wine and cheese.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ You should offer one before you start calling people who are talking about the only possible solution "fascists".
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ "One really only needs to comprehend the "Temptations of Christ" to understand that Jesus could not be god.
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     … .Stranger still, the ancient religion of the Jews survives, when all the religions of every ancient race of the pre-Christian world have disappeared … Again it is strange that the living religions of the world all build on religious ideas derived from the Jews.^ Most monks, of any religion, whether christianity or buddhism, actually live perpetually with other monks.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Or for us to have an awareness raising that monogamy is a completely religious idea that doesn't play out in the real world very well.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Where ever we are, we are to engage the culture that we live in, for we, as Christians live in a world that has rejected the ways and things of God, no matter which culture that is.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     …. .The great matter is not “What happened?” but “Why did it happen?” Why does Judaism live?"^ Non-living, matter does not think.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ "How does the atheist explain life coming forth from non-living matter, and where is his/her evidence that such a thing can happen?
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ You responded: "Why did these women marry a man who does not satisfy them emotionally?
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    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • T.R. Glover (The Ancient World, Penguin, pp. .184-191)
  • "What is the Jew?...What kind of unique creature is this whom all the rulers of all the nations of the world have disgraced and crushed and expelled and destroyed; persecuted, burned and drowned, and who, despite their anger and their fury, continues to live and to flourish.^ And that's the world you live despite all denials.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Similarly, we might say that all those who incarnate Christ consciousness (CC) are the same person, deep down, modulo some kind of equivalence.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Ladies, Why are y'all arguing with a fool who has drowned his soul in the Bible?
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     .What is this Jew whom they have never succeeded in enticing with all the enticements in the world, whose oppressors and persecutors only suggested that he deny (and disown) his religion and cast aside the faithfulness of his ancestors?!^ The Jews claim that they are "only" a religion.
    • What world famous men said about the Jews 28 January 2010 0:10 UTC www.stormfront.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ We are concerned with all of the great religions of the world.
    • How to Become a Hindu, Chapter 6: Beliefs of All the World's Religions 14 January 2010 7:18 UTC www.himalayanacademy.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ They are dispersed all over the world so that, by expiating [?
The Jew - is the symbol of eternity. ... He is the one who for so long had guarded the prophetic message and transmitted it to all mankind. .A people such as this can never disappear.^ That is not, of course, necessarily to say that by virtue of their exalted positions such people are mere automatons, or that they are never responsible for choices they make.

 ^ The rest of the people will hear of this and be afraid, and never again will such an evil thing be done among you.
  • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
  • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
The Jew is eternal. He is the embodiment of eternity."
    • Leo Tolstoy (What is the Jew? Quoted in The Final Resolution, pg. 189, printed in Jewish World periodical, 1908)
  • When we scan the diaspora of Jewry over the entire globe and throughout the entire civilized world, we are surprised to see that this Nation, which is almost the most ancient in the world, is in truth the youngest in terms of the land under its feet and the sky above its head. .As a result of the relentless persecutions and forced expulsions, most Jews are but recent new-comers to their respective lands of residence.^ Does it not make perfect sense that those new senses may lie in the area of awareness and consciousness as our most recent evolutionary changes have been?
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     .Ninety percent of the Jewish people have lived in their new homes for no more than 50 or 60 years!^ "And 7's have no more credibility than Goddies."
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ No more bored than wives of thirteen years.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ "No more bored than wives of thirteen years.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     (The Jewish People) are dispersed throughout over 100 lands on all five continents.
    • Leschzinsky (The Jewish Dispersion by in Discovery Booklet pg. 55)
  • "The preservation of the Jew was certainly not casual. .He has endured through the power of a certain ideal, based on the recognition of a Higher Power in human affairs.^ But in reality, Communism became an extreme dogmatic belief system (not unlike religion in certain circumstances) that was based on irrational beliefs about the well-being of humans.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Religion is a joining of people partaking in a certain set of ideas or beliefs, who in turn develop ideals for the appropriate actions to take based on those beliefs.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     .Time after time in his history, moreover, he has been saved from disaster in a manner, which cannot be described excepting as 'providential.'^ "Logically you have agreed on your last post that two contradictory statements cannot both be true at the same time and in the same manner.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ As to the time cause and manner of his fall Scripture tells us scarcely anything; but it describes to us distinctly the moral nature of the evil one.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Logically you have agreed on your last post that two contradictory statements cannot both be true at the same time and in the same manner.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     .The author has deliberately attempted to write this book in a secular spirit; he does not think that his readers can fail to see in it, on every page, a higher immanence"
    • Cecil Roth (History of the Jews, New York, 1963, p.^ Only if the new testament is a history book.
      • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
      • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

       ^ I have been inspired by Dennett's writings since 1980 and enjoyed talking with him more recently in New York and Oxford.
      • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
      • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

       ^ Yes, I can see how my words could be ambiguous unless someone follows precisely every single word I write on this blog.
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      • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

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  • "This people are not eminent solely by their antiquity, but are also singular by their duration, which has always continued from their origin till now.^ We now need for most people to actually opt out of that game because there are just not enough resources for continued growth of the human race.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     .For, whereas the nations of Greece and of Italy, of Lacedaemon, of Athens and of Rome, and others who came long after, have long since perished, these ever remain, and in spite of the endeavors of many powerful kings who have a hundred times tried to destroy them, as their historians testify, and as it is easy to conjecture from the natural order of things during so long a space of years, they have nevertheless been preserved (and this preservation has been foretold); and extending from the earliest times to the latest, their history comprehends in its duration all our histories (which it preceded by a long time)."^ It all depends on who is in power.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ But they do exist for about a hundred years at a time.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ In the end though the result is the same as always, a knowledgeable man who starts from the presupposition that god is real and bends all of space and time to make it fit that view.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • Pensees by Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952 - Paragraph 620, p. 285
  • The Jews have played an all-important role in history. .They are pre-eminently an historical people and their destiny reflects the indestructibility of the divine decrees.^ They are myths, they are not historical people whom the evidence is based on, whereas Jesus is.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ They describe accurately historical and archaeological events, peoples and places that are confirmed by secular sources as well.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     Their destiny is too imbued with the "metaphysical" to be explained either in material or positive historical terms.
I remember how the materialist interpretation of history, when I attempted in my youth to verify it by applying it to the destinies of peoples, broke down in the case of the Jew, where destiny seemed absolutely inexplicable from the materialistic standpoint. And, indeed, according to the materialistic and positivist criterion, this people ought long ago to have perished. Its survival is a mysterious and wonderful phenomenon demonstrating that the life of this people is governed by a special predetermination, transcending the processes of adaptation expounded by the materialistic interpretation of history.
The survival of the Jews, their resistance to destruction, their endurance under absolutely peculiar conditions and the fateful role played by them in history; all these point to the particular and mysterious foundations of their destiny...
The historical not only represented man's external relations, but that it might also reveal the very noumenon and essence of his being. The peculiarity of Jewish destiny consists in its incommensurability with either the pre-Christian or the Christian era. Scientific criticism applied to traditional Biblical history can neither discredit the universal role played by the Jews nor offer a satisfactory explanation of their mysterious destiny. Nor does this criticism grapple with the absolutely peculiar tie existing between the Jews and the 'historical,' and their extraordinarily intense feeling for history.
    • The Meaning of History by Professor Nicholai Berdysev, Moscow Academy - London 1935, pp. 86-7
  • "Israel's great achievement, so apparent that mention of it is almost trite, was Monotheism. .It was an achievement that transformed subsequent history....One may raise the question whether any other single contribution from whatever source since human culture emerged from the stone age has had the far reaching effect upon history that Israel in this regard has exerted both through the mediums of Christianity and Islam and directly through the world of Jewish thinkers themselves"
    • from The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man, by H. and H. A. Frankfort, John A. Wilson, Thorkild Jacobsen, William A. Irwin
  • [E]vidence from anthropology concurs with history in refuting the popular belief in a Jewish race descended from the biblical tribe.^ Since the theory of evolution gained popularity we have had more reason to be inhumane since we are supposedly just advanced animals and what one animal does to another has no far reaching implications.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Similarly it is one thing to say that "some kind of consciousness enlightenment may be possible through meditation practices."
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ He accused Sam of being sloppy, lacking “intellectual scruples”, assuming he knows that which he does not know, is a man “posing as a rationalist” among other hyperbole.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     .From the anthropologist's point of view, two groups of facts militate against this belief: the wide diversity of Jews with regard to physical characteristics, and their similarity to the Gentile population amidst whom they live.^ For a person, such as you, who thrives on facts, insists on facts and uses facts incessantly to defend his own point of view, he ought to consider them as well, when others use them to argue their points.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ So, it’s all about seeing things how they really are, and ironically modern science doesn't do this, from a Buddhist point of view.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Those pontificators err greatly in that they miss the point, which is that by its nature, theism holds that religious views should come entirely from deity.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     Both are reflected in the statistics about bodily height, cranial index, blood-groups, hair and eye colour, etc. .Whichever of these anthropological criteria is taken as an indicator, it shows a greater similarity between Jews and their Gentile host-nation than between Jews living in different countries...The obvious biological explanation for both phenomena is miscegenation, which took different forms in different historical situations: intermarriage, large-scale proselytizing, rape as a constant (legalized or tolerated) accompaniment of war and pogrom.^ The relationship between a human woman and human man, in romantic embrace, is a lot different than the relationship between a lion and a gazelle in violent conflict.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ And this is a significantly different situation than that of the last billion or so years.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ It looks like I'll have to draw on the Scriptures to show you the difference between man's inhumanity to man and God's laws and the explanation on slavery.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

From "A Book of Jewish Thoughts" ed. J. H. Hertz (Oxford University Press, 1920)

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  • Judaism is something more than a badge, something more than a birth-mark; it is a life.^ I have evidence that I can point to that only something living gives birth to life, only something thinking gives birth to mind, only something that has a mind has intent.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Something happened to these men in their belief in the birth, life, death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ that changed the world.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ I said that it is more likely that something came from something rather than something has "always been", because in physics, everything has a cause.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     .
    • Morris Joseph (1903), p.21
  • Salvation is attained not by subscription to metaphysical dogmas, but solely by love of God that fulfils itself in action.^ You see Timmy, God does not compromise His standard of righteousness, but He sent someone whom He loves to fulfill it and to reconcile mankind to Himself.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     This is a cardinal truth in Judaism. .
    • Chasdai Crescas (1410), p.25
  • When sometimes our own unchristian prejudices flame out agains tthe Jewish people, let us remember that all that we have and all that we are we owe, under God, to what Judaism gave us.^ God gave us choice.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ If so, do you admit that God gave us our judgement and reasoning?
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ There is no boasting on our part before God, but thankfulness in His mercy to us who deserve His justice for doing what is wrong in His sight.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     .
    • Lyman Abbott, p.131
  • Israel has given the world true humanitarianism, just as it has given the world the true God.^ And God has given us many proofs that the Scriptures are true and confirm what is real, some of which I have gone over before, I believe on this forum.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ There cannot both be a God and not a God, just like there cannot be a computer screen in front of me and not a computer screen in front of me in the world of reality.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ YOU: "That just means that certain aspects of God are unchanging, that might be true.
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • On Faith Panelists Blog: The Problem with Atheism - Sam Harris 19 January 2010 8:48 UTC newsweek.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • C. H. Cornill (1895), p.131
  • None of the resplendent names in history - Egypt, Athens, Rome - can compare in eternal grandeur with Jerusalem. For Israel has given to mankind the category of holiness. Israel alone has known the thirst for social justice, and that inner saintliness which is the source of justice.
    • Charles Wagner (1918), p.134

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.The Division of Jewish Studies offers academic study of the religion, history, literature, languages, and material culture of the Jews from ancient to modern times.^ General history is covered well in Grayzel's [13]A History of the Jews and Wein's [14]Triumph of Survival: The Story of Jews in the Modern Age, 1650-1990.
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 ^ According to a study sponsored by the American Jewish Committee, Catholics and Protestants are more likely to change faiths than are Jews.

 ^ "The Ewe people were therefore not only established in the region of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, they were also established in Ancient Egypt and their story was part of Ancient Egyptian history, literature, and folklore.
.See also: w:Portal:Judaism, w:Judaism (as a religion), w:Jews (as a people), w:Jewish history, and w:Jewish culture.^ Also, this fomented ill feelings among Europeans that the so-called Jewish people had deliberately deceived them so that the Jews would dominate Europe.

 ^ Because, the Eastern European Jews outnumber all the rest by so many that they create the impression that they are the Jewish ‘race’; that they are the Jewish nation; that they are the Jewish people.

 ^ For Judaism to survive and grow, Jews must continue to reconstruct their heritage in response to changes in social, political, and cultural conditions.
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 ^ You word list is very small.
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 ^ Here is you, in your argument for marriage, going on about how it was invented for men to own women.
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A Division has departments (in the Topic: namespace). The departments link to learning materials and learning projects. .Simply make a link from department pages to the name of the lesson (lessons are independent pages) and start writing!^ When you start "experiencing" god and making statements about those experiences as though they are based on something substantial, this is where you and I are going to depart.
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Hebrew יְהוּדָה (Yehuda), “‘Judah’”) + -ism

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Judaism (countable and uncountable; plural Judaisms)
  1. A world religion tracing its origin to the Hebrew people of the ancient Middle-East, as documented in their religious writings, the Torah or Old Testament.

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 ^ It's tough claiming that you have a book that can explain everything and then being asked questions that your book can't explain.
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 ^ You on the other hand asked no questions and made nothing but statements of belief quoting the book that your belief was "set down in" once and for all.
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The religion of the Jewish people (II Macc. ii. 21, viii. 1, xiv. 38; Gal. i. 13 = (image) , Esth. R. iii. 7; comp. (image) , Esth. viii. .17); their system of beliefs and doctrines, rites and customs, as presented in their sacred literature and developed under the influence of the various civilizations with which they have come in contact, widening out into a world-religion affecting many nations and creeds.^ They want to perpetuate their religion into perpetuity.
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 ^ "They seem to believe that you can argue people out of religion."
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 ^ They want to influence and power their belief into the forefront of thinking and yet are unwilling to provide an answer as to why it is true other than personal preference.
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 .In reality the name "Judaism" should refer only to the religion of the people of Judea, that is, of the tribe of Judah, the name "Yehudi" (hence "Judean," "Jew") originally designating a member of that tribe.^ Kripke says names are rigid designators, by which he means they refer to the things they point to independently of the properties of those things.
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 ^ Not only should we not present an image that is dismissive and critical of these people, we should lay out the red carpet and serve only the best wine and cheese.
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 ^ I’m for getting the facts out about religion and for encouraging people who are not religious to show their faces as full, acceptable members of society.
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 .In the course of time, however, the term "Judaism" was applied to the entire Jewish history.^ More complete definition of the terms is needed, of course, and they must be consistently applied.
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 ^ The way you use it is completely different than what it is, and perhaps I should educate you since, as you say, you know little about Judaism (and I assume Jewish history).
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 ^ Judaism, various interpretations of Jewish texts, Jewish history (which does go beyond Exodus...not-Jesus...yada yada yada...Hitler...Israel...
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Contents

Definition.

.A clear and concise definition of Judaism is very difficult to give, for the reason that it is not a religion pure and simple based upon accepted creeds, like Christianity or Buddhism, but is one inseparably connected with the Jewish nation as the depository and guardian of the truths held by it for mankind.^ Truth is based upon what is real.
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 ^ The solution is very simple and based on mathematics.
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 ^ Truth is based upon what is real."
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 .Furthermore, it is as a law, or system of laws, given by God on Sinai that Judaism is chiefly represented in Scripture and tradition, the religious doctrines being only implicitly or occasionally stated; wherefore it is frequently asserted that Judaism is a theocracy (Josephus, "Contra Ap."^ Since he is a Jew there is no new covenant, therefore he is bound by two things, that god is only for the Jews and the Jews are under the laws of the OT." .
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 ^ And the religious right is out hugging trees and being God’s care taker for the planet now.
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 ^ Any kind of government that forces God's laws on its own people will be a theocracy and a totalitarian government.
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 ii. .16), a religious legislation for the Jewish people, but not a religion.^ Religious people search for the mysterious faith that atheists must have in place of religion.
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 ^ In fact, many of them are led to suspect this by religion—by the claims of people like the Buddha or Jesus or some other celebrated religious figures.
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 ^ Some people who are atheist get upset when someone of some religious conviction says that atheism is a religion.
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 .The fact is that Judaism is too large and comprehensive a force in history to be defined by a single term or encompassed from one point of view.^ You and I know that one can find an author's points of view so in-line with their own, that they feel compelled to quote that author often when making their points.
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 ^ For a person, such as you, who thrives on facts, insists on facts and uses facts incessantly to defend his own point of view, he ought to consider them as well, when others use them to argue their points.
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 ^ Of course there is not one single provable fact to support such ramblings, every provable fact shows that the past was worse for humanity in every aspect of life.
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.Extending over thirty-five centuries of history and over well-nigh all the lands of the civilized globe, Judaism could not always retain the same form and character.^ Hegel's philosophy translated very well into evolutionary terms, and the history of European philosophy over the last century or so has indeed been the further refinement of that general outlook.
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 ^ "Anyone stating that Determinism removes morality, is making the same kind of pointless claim that Peter does when it says all morality comes form god" .
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 ^ "PS Anyone stating that Determinism removes morality, is making the same kind of pointless claim that Peter does when it says all morality comes form god.
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 .Judaism in its formative period, that is, in the patriarchal and prophetic times, differed from exilic and post-exilic Judaism; and rabbinic or pharisaic Judaism again presents a phase quite different from Mosaic Judaism, to which the Sadducees, and afterward to some extent the Karaites, persistently clung.^ It would be extremely easy to find the mistakes in the text, especially when these copies were found over different periods of time.
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 ^ Believe me, some of us have quite a different idea of romance and cannot be convinced that cheating spouses is what makes life exciting.
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 ^ It is going to take me some time to mull over and unpack the confusion in your last post, plus I am working this weekend.
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 Similarly Judaism in the Diaspora, or Hellenistic Judaism, showed great divergences from that of Palestine. .So, too, the mysticism of the Orient produced in Germany and France a different form of Judaism from that inculcated by the Arabic philosophy cultivated by the Jews of Spain.^ He said that generally, philosophy books were written in two different forms.
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 ^ It is true that as a people the Jews kept to themselves and Judaism in its earliest form caters strictly to a particular group of people.
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 ^ Like defeated Germany and Japan, or humbled USSR, France and Great Briain, or shamed Chile and Argentine, America as a whole is going to have to see itself differently.
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 .Again, many Jews of modern times more or less systematically discard that form of Judaism fixed by the codes and the casuistry of the Middle Ages, and incline toward a Judaism which they hold more in harmony with the requirements of an age of broader culture and larger aims.^ They have all been answered many times.
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 ^ I had had this shaking experience before with the more advanced level one techniques of the DVD Course but this time all that was required was correct posture.
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 ^ This is just more outdated (150 years) nonsense, the "Testimony of the Evangelist" never did or certainly couldn't and wouldn't hold up in any modern court today.
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 .Far from having become 1900 years ago a stagnant or dried-up religion, as Christian theology declares, Judaism has ever remained "a river of God full of living waters," which, while running within the river-bed of a single nation, has continued to feed anew the great streams of human civilization.^ Most monks, of any religion, whether christianity or buddhism, actually live perpetually with other monks.
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 ^ Peter, the historic greatness of Western civilization was to use Greek mathematics and philosophy to balance Jewish religion.
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 ^ God's word continues to change lives to this day.
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 .In this light Judaism is presented in the following columns as a historic power varying in various epochs.^ "When looked at in this light the it is not historical Christianity which was extreme, but also present day.
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 ^ When looked at in this light the it is not historical Christianity which was extreme, but also present day.
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 .It is first necessary to state what are the main principles of Judaism in contradistinction to all other religions.^ And if it is right, all other religions are wrong.
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 ^ Science is the perfect tool to "measure and quantify" not only music and other arts but also religion because science just is the business of measuring and quantifying natural phenomena in all their variety.
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 ^ As married atheists why would two people who question and shun religion, God and the Bible in all other aspects of our lives, not question and shun it in our marriage?
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I. The Essence of Judaism:

Unity of God.

(a)
.Judaism is above all the religion of pure monotheism, the proclamation, propagation, and preservation of which have been the life-purpose and task of the Jewish people.^ All people find personal meaning by situating their personal narrative in (or occasionally against) a larger cultural tradition, and that is religion's franchise.
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 ^ "Perhaps that purpose is to become aware of something, for the sake of the survival of the universe or for all life in the universe."
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 ^ We simply do not call people “non-astrologers.” All we need are words like “reason” and “evidence” and “common sense” and “bullshit” to put astrologers in their place, and so it could be with religion.
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 ."God is One, and so should Israel be of all nations the one vouching for His pure worship" (Josephus, "Ant."^ After all, these nuts worship Israel.
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 ^ After all no one would ever think of taking harmless musings of god and mind powers and turn them in to a religion(s), would they?
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 ^ "More allegations that no one was around to see or knows exactly what happened, except for God who made it all and understands it completely.
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 iv. 8, § 5; Ber. 6a, with reference to I Chron. xvii. 20, 21; Deut. vi. 4, xxvi. 17-18; Sifre, Deut. 31; and Sabbath afternoon liturgy: "Attah eḥad"). .Judaism is not the mere profession of belief in the unity of God which each Jew is enjoined to make every morning and evening by reciting the nullShema' ("Ant."^ YOU: "Timmy and I keep making statements that your words are based on your belief about God and the Bible.
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 ^ Then you have the unity and consistent themes running throughout the Bible all pointing towards God and revealing the Lord Jesus Christ on every page.
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 ^ I believe, as a Christian, there are certain fundamental doctrines, that if denied, deny the truth of Scripture and the God of the Bible and make you an idolater, a false witness and not Christian, not matter what else you profess.
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 iv. 8, § 13; Sifre, Deut. 34; Ber. i. 1 et seq., ii.). .It is the guardianship of the pure monotheistic faith; and this implied the intellectual and spiritual elaboration as well as the defense of the same throughout the centuries against all powers and systems of paganism or semipaganism, and amidst all the struggles and sufferings which such an unyielding and uncompromising attitude of a small minority entailed (see Jew.^ The inflow of Spiritual Energy or Kundalini Energy is well known in all Spiritual Circles as being expected in all genuine Courses with teachers who have advanced experience with Enlightened Masters.
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 ^ His statement suggests more of a guerilla approach which has been shown time and again to be effective against big lumbering all powerful behemoths.
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 ^ So where is all the crusade against the God of the Abrahamic faiths coming from?
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 Encyc. vol. vi., s.v. God).
Judaism did not begin as an abstract or absolute monotheism arrived at by philosophical speculation and dogmatic in its character. .Its God was not selected out of many, and invested with certain attributes to suit the requirements of an age or of a class of thinkers.^ These, of the many attributes He reveals in the pages of Scripture, does not stop God from knowing all things and judging according to His nature.
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 ^ Since God made our resources in a certain way, out of certain elements, for our survival we were created to live and share them with other life forms that have also been created to live with us.
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 ^ LJ: “If you mean that absolute authority requires a person to follow all of God’s laws (there are so many and they are so contrary),” .
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 .Judaism at the very outset was a declaration of war against all other gods (Ex.^ As married atheists why would two people who question and shun religion, God and the Bible in all other aspects of our lives, not question and shun it in our marriage?
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 ^ You can claim it is God doing the judging but all one has to do is read through your posts and the light is shining very brightly.
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 ^ I consider the ability to have faith in God like short wave reception – all have it, but it is activated in some and not in others.
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 xx. 3). .Yhwh, its Only One, from Sinai, spoke at the very birth-hour of Israel, His first-born, the words: "Against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the Lord" (Ex.^ Small incinerators are defined as those burning only one ton an hour – almost 10,000 tons a year!
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 ^ There is only space, all of my meridians are ONE! Stretching through all the creation.
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 ^ In truth, and without Lie, And just as all things have been from the one, so also they are born from this one thing by adaptation.
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 xii. .12); and to Babylon went forth His word: "The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens."^ These are the creatures that God made.
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 ^ "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
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 ^ TIMMY: "But in fact Peter, here you are confirming that the bible can not be the perfect word of a perfect God, because you are confirming that I am flawed, and that God made 99.9% of his creatures faulty.
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 "They are vanity, the work of error" (Jer. x. 10, 15). ."All the gods of the nations are things of nought ["elilim"; A. V. "idols"]: but the Lord made the heavens" (Ps.^ These, of the many attributes He reveals in the pages of Scripture, does not stop God from knowing all things and judging according to His nature.
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 ^ Without God all the injustices that people and nations have gotten away with will go unpunished.
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 ^ Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
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 xcvi. 5). .The contrast between the living God and everlasting King, the only true God, and the idols worshiped by brutish man (Isa.^ And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.
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 ^ And we are to not only respect, but worship this God?
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 ^ There is only one true God.
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 xliv. 9-19; Jer. x. 8-15; Ps. cxxxv. .16-18) was too striking to allow Judaism to regard heathenism and all its folly otherwise than with sarcastic contempt; while the heathen, on their side, were at a loss to comprehend the Jew worshiping an unseen God and without any images (Tacitus, "Historiæ," ii.^ Without an accurate understanding of who He is, as He Himself has revealed Himself, we are guilty of worshiping false gods.
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 ^ Without God all the injustices that people and nations have gotten away with will go unpunished.
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 ^ Bede faster than lightening strikes a tree and would condemn him to Hell...he isn't Christian enough or he isn't Biblical enough or he isn't God-fearing enough----we can all fill in the blanks here.
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 5, 9; Juvenal, xiv. 97). .But idolatry, as well as idolaters, was consigned to relentless extermination by Judaism, not so much on account of its intrinsic error as because of the abominable rites connected with it, which led to the degradation and moral depravity of man (Ex.^ The early constitutional framers, similar in perspective as Witherspoon, were convinced that there was an intrinsic connection between morality and good government.
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 ^ Well no big surprise that we disagree on much here, but on your response to Allan Greene we are in agreement, Marxism failed/fails all on it's own (help or no help from the evil west) because it fails to take into account human nature.
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 ^ When man chose to know both good and evil by disobeying God he forfeited/lost his perfect standing before God, perfect moral and physical well being as well as perfect innocence.
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 xx. 5; xxiii. 24, 33; Lev. xviii. 24-30; Deut. iv. 24, vii. 2-5, 23; ix. 3; xiv. 16; xx. 17-18). From the days of Moses (Num. xxv. 1) down to the time of Philo and the rabbinic schools (Philo, "De Humanitate"; Döllinger, "Heidenthum und Judenthum," 1857, pp. .682 et seq., 700-718; see also Jubilees, Book of; Sibyllines), pagan cults were steeped in vice and cruelty, rendering them "an abomination" unto "Israel's God, who hateth lewdness" (Sanh.^ "More allegations that no one was around to see or knows exactly what happened, except for God who made it all and understands it completely.
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 ^ Some scientists who don't believe in God see themselves as very spiritual people.
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 ^ What I see as contradictory is your belief in an AG (Abrahamic God) who is omniscient and omnipotent and my doubt or lack of belief in one.
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 106a), wherefore rigid intolerancetoward every form or snare of idolatry became the characteristic feature of the rabbinical law (ib. vii. 6 et seq., x. 4; Maimonides, "Yad," 'Akkum, ii-vii.; ib. Melakim, vi. 4; see Worship, Idol-, Judaism brooks no compromise with polytheism or idolatrous heathenism. .Indeed, it enjoins the Jew to give up his life rather than to act disloyally toward his pure monotheistic faith (Dan.^ I might lean towards Israel if we had to leave or, giving up the idea of new citizenship, maybe Japan where I have previously lived.
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 ^ The result is the same: Jews become one of "Them" rather than "Americans."
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 ^ Faith in His Son is the only criteria that counts towards salvation, something that God alone gives as a gift, so there is no boasting on my part, only on what the Lord has done for me.
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 iii.; I Macc. i. 63; II Mace. vii.; Sanh. 74a). .As soon as the Jewish people were scattered among other nations, and thereby found the opportunity of drawing comparisons between other beliefs and their own, it was inevitable that they should be so impressed with the superiority of their faith as to look forward with perfect confidence to its ultimate triumph, like Abraham, conscious of their mission to proclaim the only God everywhere and to establish His kingdom throughout the earth (Isa.^ They are their own sovereign nations.
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 ^ Here you are telling other people what they should do with their time.
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 ^ God created only perfect creatures.
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 ii. 2, xv., xlvi., xlix.; Zech. viii. 23; Gen. .R. xxxix.; see also Polemics and Polemical Literature); and this hope for the final victory of pure monotheistic truth over all pagan error found powerful utterance in the daily prayer of the Jew (see 'Alenu), and especially in the solemn New-Year liturgy (see Liturgy).^ Are you suggesting that Sam's interest in meditation is not at all scientific curiosity but rather an escape from his new found fame?
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 ^ The New Testament brings plainly forward the power and the influence of Satan, From the beginning of the Gospel, when he appears as the personal tempter of our Lord through all the Gospels, Epistles, and Apocalypse, it is asserted or implied, again and again, as a familiar and important truth.
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 ^ God in all his wisdom has found much better ways to communicate with the more perceptive seekers after truth among his chosen people.
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Universality of God.

.However tribal or exclusive the idea of the God of Israel may have been originally, Judaism boldly assumes that its God was the God of man from the very beginning; the Creator of heaven and earth, and the Ruler of the world from eternity to eternity, who brought the Flood upon a wicked generation of men, and who established the earth in righteousness and justice (Gen.^ The Indians say, "Our Mother, the Earth" and our Father, who art in Heaven is God, the energy in the center of the universe.
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 ^ Seven, the sum of three and four, represented the steps or completed cycle from earth to heaven, and eight, the next, signifying rebirth and new life, and 12, the product of three and four, God and the world, were all also important.
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 ^ The Labor Party (the liberal party) is made up of secular Jews who are Zionists -- anyone who believes in Israel's right to exist is a Zionist.
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 i.-x.). .In the light of this presentation of facts, idolatry or the worship of other gods is but a rebellious breaking away from the Most High, the King of the Nations, the universal God, besides whom there is no other (Deut.^ I don't "believe there is no god."
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 ^ They want it to be "There is no God or gods" .
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 ^ "I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me.
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 v. 39; Jer. x. .7), and to whom alone all knees must bend in humble adoration (Isa.^ He is the alone fountain of all being, of whom, through whom, and to whom are all things and hath most sovereign dominion over them, to do by them, for them, or upon them whatsoever Himself pleaseth.
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 ^ He is able (He has the ability) to keep you in a perfect state of innocents before the Judge, of whom we must all give account.
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 xlv. 23, lxvi. 23). .Judaism, accordingly, has for its sole object the restoration of the pure worship of God throughout the earth (Zech.^ The effective object of worship is the bottle and the sole religious experience is that state of uninhibited and belligerent euphoria which follows the ingestion of the third cocktail."
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 xiv. .9); the Sinaitic covenant, which rendered Israel "a kingdom of priests among the nations"—itself only a renewal of the covenant made with Abraham and his descendants for all time—having been concluded for the sole purpose of giving back to mankind its God of old, the God of the Noachian covenant, which included all men (Gen.^ God made all human ills.
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 ^ They were part of the Mosaic covenant that God made with the people of Israel.
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 ^ How many times do you have to call man flawed, and for me to agree with you before you notice that God made a faulty product?
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 ix. 17, xviii. 18-19; Ex. xix. 3-6; Isa. xlix. 6-8). .Surely there is nothing clannish in the God of the Prophets and the Psalmist, who judges all men and nations alike with justice and righteousness (Amos i.-ii., ix.^ There is nothing new here at all.
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 ^ Men know God's righteous standard and anything that is against it will be judged by God.
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 ^ To a believer there is nothing outside God.
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 7; Jer. xxvi.; Ezek. xl.; Ps. xcvi. 13, xcviii. 9; and elsewhere). .Judaism's God has through the prophetic, world-wide view become the God of history, and through the Psalms and the prayers of the Ḥasidim the God of the human heart, "the Father," and the "Lover of souls" (Isa.^ There is something extremely illogical to me about a world-view that supposes that 99.9% of humanity is malfunctioning.
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 ^ It just becomes personal preference in your world-view.
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 ^ Amoung the names you gave, only humanism gives a clearly stated world view, a set of guiding principals.
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 lxiii. 16; see Wisdom, xi. 26, and Abba). .Far from departing from this standpoint, Judaism in the time of the Synagogue took the decisive forward step of declaring the Holy Name (see Adonai) ineffable, so as to allow the God of Israel to be known only as "the Lord God."^ ME: "Your presuppostions do not allow you to see the world in any other way other than the one you have been indoctrinated into from the time you were a child," .
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 ^ Not only are Lindajean and I far from alone, we are very much in the vast majority of those who answer "no" to the question "do you believe in God?"
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 ^ "Your presuppostions do not allow you to see the world in any other way other than the one you have been indoctrinated into from the time you were a child," .
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 .Henceforth without any definite name He stood forth as the world's God without peer.^ Without acts of love or compassion we would not survive one day in this world you claim was created by God.
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 ^ But without God how can the world can be made sense of?
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 ^ YOU: "Matt 1:23 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us."
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Spirituality of God.

.Judaism at all times protested most emphatically against any infringement of its pure monotheistic doctrine, whether by the dualism of the Gnostic (Sanh.^ The solution is to remove all energy blockages and implants through techniques like Energy Enhancement which is the most advanced technique in this time period.
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 ^ Catholics and Protestants even, after decades of conservative pundits hammering home how this must be true, because they say so all the time.
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 38a; Gen. R. i.; Eccl. R. iv. .8) or by the Trinitarianism of the Church (see Jew.^ When you put in the context of the historic persecution of Jews by Catholics and the Church, it's hard to see.
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 Encyc. iv. .54, s.v. Christianity), never allowing such attributes as justice and pardoning love to divide the Godhead into different powers or personalities.^ Modern Christians are into tough love.
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 ^ Timmy: “Now here's the important part LJ. You would either be the type of person who could love someone who was not into monogamous X? Or you would be the type of person who is turned off by such promiscuity.
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 ^ They want to influence and power their belief into the forefront of thinking and yet are unwilling to provide an answer as to why it is true other than personal preference.
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 .Indeed, every contact with other systems of thought or belief served only to put Judaism on its guard lest the spirituality of God be marred by ascribing to Him human forms.^ There is only one God and we are not Him.
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 ^ Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son."
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 ^ Humans do have choice (as Peter keeps insisting) and I have to agree with him (minus the God stuff.
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 Yet, far from being too transcendental, too remote from mortal man in his need (as Weber, "Jüdische Theologie," 1897, pp. .157 et seq., asserts), Judaism's God "is ever near, nearer than any other help or sympathy can be" (Yer.^ PH2(a) Whether or not it does, it is extremely helpful in salvation or any other matters to believe in a God who does not change in His attributes and character.
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 ^ Whether or not it does, it is extremely helpful in salvation or any other matters to believe in a God who does not change in His attributes and character.
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 ^ Whether or not it does, it is extremely helpful in salvation or any other matters to believe in a God who does not change...
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 Ber. ix. 13a); "His very greatness consists in His condescension to man" (Meg. 31a; Lev. R. i., with reference to Ps. cxiii. 6). .In fact, "God appears to each according to his capacity or temporary need" (Mek., Beshallaḥ, Shirah, iv.; see Schechter in "J. Q. R." vi.^ Whether you wish to see it that way or not does not change the fact that its pages claim to be the very words of God, over and over.
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 ^ Although you have a will, that chooses, it is not a free will (for it will not choose God of its own accord), but a self will, that wills in favor of the world as you see it.
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 ^ TIMMY: "Even though it appears as though these people are under the impression that God did not kill their baby, they are in fact the most brilliant actors in the world.
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 417-427).
.Judaism affirms that God is a spirit, above all limitations of form, the Absolute Being who calls Himself "I am who I am" ("Eheyeh asher Eheyeh"; Ex.^ And the granddaddy and designer of them all is God Himself.
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 ^ Without an accurate understanding of who He is, as He Himself has revealed Himself, we are guilty of worshiping false gods.
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 ^ Experience is not all you have, you have an innate knowledge of God that you suppress, just as you have an intangible part of you that is not material in nature, in composition - your spirit that is unique, that is God given, that makes choices and makes you who you are.
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 iii. .14), the Source of all existence, above all things, independent of all conditions, and without any physical quality.^ All things have no inherent existence.
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 ^ "Through Him all things were made; without Him nothing was made that has been made."
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 ^ "Through Him ALL things were made, without Him nothing was made that has been made."
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 Far, however, from excluding less philosophical views of the Deity, so ardent a Jew as R. Abraham b. .David of Posquières contends against Maimonides that he who holds human conceptions of God, such as the cabalists did, is no less a Jew than he who insists on His absolute incorporeality (Haggahot to "Yad," Teshubah, iii.^ God has chosen less than 1% of humanity (completely at random) to be saved.
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 ^ A god who allows such barbarism is no god.
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 ^ No, God did.
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 7). Indeed, the daily prayers of the Jew, from "Adon 'Olam" to the "Shir ha-Yiḥud" of Samuel b. .Kalonymus, show a wide range of thought, here of rationalistic and there of mystic character, combining in a singular manner transcendentalism and immanence or pantheism as in no other faith.^ It is a recipe for violence, because there is no compromise - one social-economic system or the other will win out.
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 .While the ideas of the various ages and civilizations have thus ever expanded and deepened the conception of God, the principle of unity was ever jealously guarded lest "His glory be given to another" (Isa.^ He was created different from the animals, in the image and likeness of God, able to reason and understand abstract ideas and concepts that include morality."
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 ^ Peter: “Your country was built on the concepts and principles of God.
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 ^ ME: “Your country was built on the concepts and principles of God.
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 xlii. 8; see God).

Ethical Monotheism.

.But the most characteristic and essential distinction of Judaism from every other system of belief and thought consists in its ethical monotheism.^ And because it is a belief without evidence, it can be seen by the other side as a dangerous belief because (according to them) can lead to an "every man for himself" mentality.
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 ^ Every belief system or worldview takes faith to believe in Gad.
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 ^ Religions modulate our morality in different ways, as the AG trinity shows even before we move on to Hindu and other belief systems.
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 .Not sacrifice, but righteous conduct, is what God desires (Isa.^ "But when this Priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, He sat down at the right hand of God.
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 ^ That purity in heart is in the Son and we who believe are included in Him, but God also changes the minds of the regenerate in the desire to do His will, to do what is right, to stand for what is right, what is good.
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 ^ And anyone found in Christ is a new creation and is counted right by God based on Christ's mediatorial work, credited righteousness and atoning sacrifice.
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 i. 12-17; Amos v. 21-24; Hos. vi. 6; Micah vi. 6-8; Jer. vii. 22; Ps. xl. .7 [A. V. 6], 1. 8-13); the whole sacrificial cult being intended only for the spiritual need of man (Pesiḳ.^ One need only to understand more fully what God did in becoming man to understand that these arguments mentioned below and in another post are mute, .
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 ^ If you only get the symptoms of Energy Blockages in the fire of the Buddhafield which is the intense aura of energy which surrounds every Spiritual Master then you need to remove the Energy Blockages which produce the symptoms.
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 ^ If anyone wants to see who invented what they need only read back through all the posts to see where the a-gad-ist cult of Timmy started.
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 vi. 57, 62; Num. R. xxi.; Lev. R. ii.). Religion's only object is to induce man to walk in the ways of God and to do right (Gen. xix. 19; Deut. x. .12), God Himself being the God of righteousness and holiness, the ideal of moral perfection (Ex.^ God in true righteousness and holiness.
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 ^ God has revealed Himself to us by His perfect, true, living Word and in order to hear what He says we need to correctly interpret that word.
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 ^ There again, up until the time that he chose to disobey God he was in perfect health, without sin, without death, without moral shortcoming, not alienated from God.
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 xx. 5-6, xxxiv. 7; Lev. xix. 1; Deut. vii. 9-10). .While the pagan gods were "products of fear," it was precisely "the fear of God" which produced in Judaism the conscience, the knowledge of a God within, thus preventing man from sin (Gen.^ Since Adam’s sin, our wills are no longer free and unbiased; they have a propensity to do that which is evil in God’s sight and in that action man was no longer able to do that which is perfect.
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 ^ Sin has blinded the minds of man so that God has to perform a rescue operation for anyone to see the light.
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 ^ "And the LORD God commanded the man, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die."
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 xlii. 18; Ex. xx. 20; Deut. x. 12; Job i. 1). .Consequently thehistory of mankind from the beginning appeared as the work of a moral Ruler of the world, of "the King of the nations of whom all are in awe" (Jer.^ Let us all unite, let us fight for a new world, a world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future, and old age security.
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 x. 7; Ps. lxv. 13, xcvi. 10; Dan. ii. 21), in whom power and justice, love and truth are united (Ps. lxxxix. 15 [A. V. 14]). .As He spoke to Israel, "Be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy" (Lev.^ "Hear O Israel: The LORD our God, the Lord is one."
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 ^ "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
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 ^ Let the Holy Spirit take the lead in using your words for God's glory, now that you have done your part.
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 xix. 1, Hebr.), so ."He said unto man, Behold the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding" (Job xxviii.^ There is a difference between wisdom and knowledge and I will grant that you, Timmy, Bernie and Andy have a great deal of knowledge, but wisdom comes with the fear of the Lord, of recognizing who He is and that He has created you.
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 ^ "And the LORD God commanded the man, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die."
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 ^ The the LORD spoke to Job out of the storm: 'Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer Me.
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 28; comp. Micah vi. 8; Isa. xxxiii. 15; Ps. xv., xxiv. .4: "He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?"^ Exd 4:11 And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth?
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 ^ There is no boasting on the part of the Christian, just thanking God for His mercy, grace and love to us.
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 ^ It looks like I'll have to draw on the Scriptures to show you the difference between man's inhumanity to man and God's laws and the explanation on slavery.
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 ). .Quite characteristic of rabbinical Judaism is the fact that the names used for God are chiefly taken from His ethical attributes: "The world's Righteous One" ("Zaddiḳo shel 'olam," Gen.^ That is right, if that god is the one and only God, the Christian God.
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 ^ Without acts of love or compassion we would not survive one day in this world you claim was created by God.
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 ^ Not impossible for God, although I don't expect you to grasp that fact since you live in the realm of possibility only in a natural world.
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 R. xlix.; Yoma 37a); "The Merciful One" ("Raḥmana"); and most frequently "The Holy One, blessed be He!" ("ha-Ḳadosh baruk hu"). .Before Cain killed his brother, he said: "There is no divine judgment and no Judge" (Targ.^ Timmy said: "There is no free will."
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 ^ As he said earlier in the show that after death he believed there was nothing, that everything ended at death, so there are no more happy journeys, according to the atheist position, once dead.
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 ^ There is no boasting on our part before God, but thankfulness in His mercy to us who deserve His justice for doing what is wrong in His sight.
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 Yer. to Gen. iv. 8). ."The first question put to man at the Last Judgment will be: 'Didst thou deal honestly with thy fellow man?'"^ First let me deal with this part of the question.
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 ^ As an atheist, my first instinct is to look for answers to these questions from biology or evolution, where I have found answers for love and compassion for my fellow human being.
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 ^ Because to honestly ponder your question, I would have to first imagine myself in the situation you proposed, so I would be able to imagine how I would react.
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 (Shab. 31a; see God).

Unity of the Cosmos.

(b)
The unity of the world is a corollary of the unity of God. .The many gods of heathendom divided the world into many parts and domains, and made it appear as the battle-ground of hostile powers.^ Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?"
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 ^ How many times do you have to call man flawed, and for me to agree with you before you notice that God made a faulty product?
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 ^ For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities - His eternal power and divine nature - have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse."
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 .The One God of the Bible renders earth and heaven, light and darkness, life and death one—a universe ruled by everlasting wisdom and goodness, the work of one great Designer and Ruler who foresees in the beginning what will be in the end, who arranges everything according to His sublime purpose (Gen.^ One God, universal message" .
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 ^ "God is the One who gives life and He is the One who takes it away by His judgment."
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 ^ The penalty is death and separation from God, for what does light have in common with darkness?
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 i. 1-31; Isa. xlv. 5-7, xlvi. 9-10, lv. 8-9; Ps. civ. 24; Prov. iii. 19, 20; Job xxviii. 24-27, xxxviii.). .Therefore God's covenant with the world which He created makes night and day and the seasons of the year maintain their order.^ God created a perfect world.
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 ^ God makes foolish the wisdom of this world.
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 ^ First, God not matter is the default state and the precondition for making sense of this world.
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 .He has given earth and heaven and everything therein their laws which they can not transgress (Gen.^ They are blocking everyone's path to nirvana, or utopia, or valhalla, or heaven on earth.
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 ^ "When Moses went and told the people all the LORD's words and LAWS, they responded with one voice, "Everything the LORD has said we will do."
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 ^ "For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them [plural distinction, 'them' - meaning all that is in them to signify everything]" Exodus 20:11 .
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 viii. 22; Jer. xxxiii. 20; Job xxxviii. 33; Ps. civ. 9, cxlviii. 6). .At the same time God is ever present in the world watching and sustaining everything (Isa.^ Which is made all the funnier seeing as Christians claim that Jesus was both god and man at the same time.........
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 ^ I Am that I Am” is God who transcends time and is always present.
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 ^ Jesus can not be both god and man at the same time.
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 xl. 28, xli. 4; Ps. civ. 27-30, cxxxix. 16, cxlv. 15-16; see Providence). .Every single act of God is part of His wondrous work (Job v.^ "All Scripture is God breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be equipped for every good work."
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 ^ If WS had written just the one play, the shortest one, which is tae say ‘Macbeth’ and even as we have it with the missing parts, it would still seem tae me the work o’ a god!
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 9, xxxviii.; Ps. lxxvii. 15 [A. V. 14], xcvi. 3). Accordingly all miracles are manifestations of His omnipotence (Gen. xviii. 14; Ex. ix. 16; Num. xvi. 30). .The grand conception of an all-controlling Power and Wisdom creating order everywhere, and working after one great design, attainable only upon the basis of Jewish monotheism, finally paved the way for the idea of an empire of law in nature.^ Most people find it easy to have many thoughts, but you only have control over something when you have the power to stop it.
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 ^ The powerful techniques of Energy Enhancement REMOVE the traumatic nature of all this Energy Release by using the new ALCHEMICAL concept of "Transmutation" - there remains non of the problems associated with all other courses.
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 ^ The true control over our minds, as known for many thousands of years, comes when we have the power to stop all our thoughts.
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 .How far this unity and immutability of the laws of nature, fixed by the will of the Creator, are compatible with miracle is a question the difficulty of which was felt by the rabbis of the Mishnah (Ab.^ How does a process create a law?
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 ^ But why does God create suffering in animals; animals who, generally speaking, follow God’s natural laws to a “T.” Laws that include procreation, genetics and instinct.
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 ^ How could God be missing from nature if He created it?
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 v. 6; and Gen. R. v.). ."God at Creation fixed the conditions for certain creatures under which they should change their nature" (the passage was misunderstood by Weber, l.c. p.^ But God created all creatures.
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 ^ God created only perfect creatures.
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 ^ No, God gave Adam and each one of us the ability to reason and love like no other creature ?He made, because we were created in His image, having certain likenesses and attributes that mirror God.
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 202, as well as by the medieval Jewish philosophers; see Miracles).

No Power of Evil.

.At any rate, Judaism, while insisting upon the unity of God and His government of the world, recognizes alongside of God no principle of evil in creation.^ I do recognize there is evil in the world.
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 ^ No need to create a new god.
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 ^ God created a perfect world.
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 .God has no counterpart either in the powers of darkness, as the deities of Egypt and Babylon had, or in the power of evil, such as Ahriman in the Zoroastrian religion is, whose demoniacal nature was transferred by the Gnostic and Christian systems to Satan.^ No god, no force, no power.
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 ^ Religion has no such credibility.
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 ^ After all no one would ever think of taking harmless musings of god and mind powers and turn them in to a religion(s), would they?
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 .In the Jewish Scriptures Satan has his place among the angels of heaven, and is bound to execute the will of God, his master (Job i.^ Some know that God loves gays, and there is a place for them in heaven.
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 ^ Considered as literature, the best scriptures about the gods are clearly those about the gods and goddesses of Ancient Greece, later translated to Rome, and written about by masters from Homer to Ovid.
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 ^ God, as in ( Genesis 22:1 ) It is this tentability of man, even in his original nature, which is represented in Scripture as giving scope to the evil action of Satan.
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 .7); and though sin and death are occasionally ascribed to him (see Satan), he can seduce and harm only as far as God permits him, and in the end must work for good (B. B. 16a).^ There is only one God and we are not Him.
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 ^ "Then they asked Him, "What must we do to do the works God requires?"
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 ^ Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son."
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 ."God is the Creator of light and darkness, the Maker of peace and of evil" (Isa.^ No believer has an answer, except that God in creating the free will, also gave room for use of that free will to do evil.
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 ^ "This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of the light because their deeds are evil.
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 ^ Couple that with the deception of the evil one, Satan, and it is not to hard to create the spin, "Did God really say?"
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 xlv. 7). Everything He made was found by Him to be very good (Gen. i. 31); "also death," says R. Meïr (Gen. R. ix.). ."What the Merciful does is for the good" (Ber.^ He does not have to have mercy on you and still be righteous, and still be good.
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 60b). Whatever evil befalls man has disciplinary value: it is intended for his higher welfare (Deut. viii. 5; Ps. xciv. 12; Ta'an. 21a: "Gam zu leṭobah").
.Because the Lord saw that the world could not stand to be measured by strict justice, He mingled the quality of mercy with that of justice and created the world with both (Gen.^ Both had broken His commands, yet God chose (before the foundation of the world) to have mercy and compassion on Jacob and hold Esau accountable for his rebellion.
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 ^ God brings justice both in this lifetime and upon Judgment Day because of the wickedness of man and because of the evils he perpetrates.
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 ^ For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities - His eternal power and divine nature - have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse."
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 R. xii.). .In striking contrast to the pessimistic doctrine that the world is the product of mere chance and full of evil, the Midrash boldly states that the world was (or is) a process of selection and evolution: "God created worlds after worlds until He said, 'This at last pleases Me'" (Gen.^ God created a perfect world.
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 ^ First, God not matter is the default state and the precondition for making sense of this world.
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 ^ Without acts of love or compassion we would not survive one day in this world you claim was created by God.
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 R. ix.; see Optimism).

Man as the Son of God.

(c)
.Next to God's unity the most essential and characteristic doctrine of Judaism is that concerning God's relation to man.^ Lenin said "dialectics is the doctrine of the unity of opposites" and most logicians regard it as absurd.
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 ^ For the most part religion is man's attempt at knowing God in which he/she invents a god that is suitable to his/her view of life based on earning the favor of that god by what he/she does.
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 ^ "For the most part religion is man's attempt at knowing God in which he/she invents a god that is suitable to his/her view of life based on earning the favor of that god by what he/she does."
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 .Heathenism degraded man by making him kneel before brutes and the works of his hand: Judaism declared man to be made in the image of God, the crown and culmination of God's creation, the appointed ruler of the earth, and vicegerent of God (Gen.^ If God created man, God is responsible for man's flaws.
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 ^ God has created man in His image and likeness, with man having the ability to reason and make choices.
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 ^ The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands.
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 i. 26, 28). In him as the end of Creation the earthly and the divine are singularly blended. This is the obvious meaning of the childlike Paradise story (Gen. ii.-iii.). .The idea is summed up in the Psalmist's words: "Thou hast made him a little lower than godly beings [A. V. "angels"]" ("Elohim"; Ps.^ The Christ of Paul is little more than an idea.
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 ^ As one who is not unfamiliar with the gods of the non-Abrahamic faiths, it might take a little more than parroting Deepak Chopra's words about the fetish of the Abrahamic God.
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 ^ The word 'atheist' was not made up by atheists.
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 viii. 6 [A. V. 5]); "Thou hast made him ruler over the work of Thine hand" (ib. verse 7 [6]). .This twofold nature of man, half animal, half deity, is frequently alluded to in Job (iv.^ Eight die in Finland, news from a vector, "Humanity Overrated" says natural selector, Columbine outcome to be expected, When man, the animal, chooses the rejected.
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 17-19, vii. 17, x. 9-12, xxv., xxxii. 8). .The original meaning of "The Lord made man in the image of Elohim" is somewhat doubtful, though clearly some kind of "godly beings" is intended (Gen.^ Exd 4:11 And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth?
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 ^ You are the one who is making His out to be a liar, by discrediting His word, even though you have been made in His image and likeness in your ability to think and reason.'"
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 ^ God made the world without flaw (Genesis 1:31) but decided to make man in His image and likeness.
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 i. 27, v. 1); the old translators have "angels"; see Book of Jubilees, xv. 27, and Mek., Beshallaḥ, vi.; Ex. R. xxx. 11, xxxii. 1; Gen. R. viii.; and Targ. Yer. to Gen. i. .27; Symmachus and Saadia translate: "God created him in a noble, upright stature" (see Geiger, "Urschrift," pp.^ Yes there are other ways to know about God for God speaks to us by what He has created, but only through His Son and by His Spirit can we truly come to know Him in Person.
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 ^ And God has revealed Himself to us by His Word, since God is not physical, but a Spirit, we do not see Him.
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 ^ "But for something as senseless as an all powerful God who needs his creation to worship him, and praise him, and believe in him without evidence, and fear him, and suffer for not believing in him without evidence?
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 323, 324, 328). .However this may be, R. Akiba, as spokesman for Judaism, takes it to signify that man is born free likeGod, able to choose between good and evil (Mek., l.c.).^ If the creature could only make the right choices then the creature would be programmed by God to only choose good, whereas God created His creature, man, with the ABILITY to choose to know the difference between good and evil, just by disobedience evil would come to pass and become reality.
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 ^ Adam freely chose the evil, in that he disobeyed what God had declared good and is thus responsible for his disobedience.
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 ^ Since Adam’s sin, our wills are no longer free and unbiased; they have a propensity to do that which is evil in God’s sight and in that action man was no longer able to do that which is perfect.
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 .According to others (see Naḥmanides and Ibn Ezra, ad loc.), it is his intelligence which renders him "the image and likeness of God" (Gen.^ No, God gave Adam and each one of us the ability to reason and love like no other creature ?He made, because we were created in His image, having certain likenesses and attributes that mirror God.
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 ^ God has created man in His image and likeness, with man having the ability to reason and make choices.
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 ^ God is showing you Gad, the consequences of your alleged autonomy, of what it is like to live as though God does not exist, or not according to His perfect standards.
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 ii. 7; Isa. xlii. 5; Ps. civ. 29; Prov. xx. 27; Job xxxii. 8; Eccl. xii. 7). .At any rate, it is the affinity of the human soul to God which is expressed in the words "image of God."^ Notice how, if I use the word "meaning" in a sentence, you have to add the word "special" in front of it, and the words "for humanity" after it to make it sound like I am talking about god.
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 ^ SJT: The image of God in Buddhism is expressed in negative terms – Shunyata, The Void, The Emptiness etc, that is all.
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 ^ It is humans who are the nay-sayers and sinners; humans who need salvation; humans that have a soul that must be saved and it is humans who must suffer to learn of God’s ways.
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 .The Rabbis say, "He is made for two worlds: the world that now is, and the world to come" (Gen.^ And according to their so-called literal interpretations of Revalations the end of the world won't come until two conditions are met: One is that Israel must be a nation.
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 R. viii.; Tan., Emor, ed. Buber, p. 21).
.The body makes man cherish sensual desires, and thus incline to sin (Gen.^ Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires...The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace..."
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 vi. 3-5, viii. .21; see Yeẓer Hara'); but it by no means forces him to commit sin.^ When Satan tempts me to despair And tells me of the guilt within, Upward I look and see Him there Who made an end to all my sin.
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 ^ Acts9:7 And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man.
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 ^ "When Satan tempts me to despair And tells me of the guilt within, Upward I look and see Him there Who made an end to all my sin.
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 Judaism refutes the idea of an inherent impurity in the flesh or in matter as opposed to the spirit. Nor does Judaism accept the doctrine of original sin. The Paradise story (Gen. iii.) asserts in parabolic form man's original state of innocence (see Original Sin). ."The soul that Thou hast given me is pure, Thou hast created it, Thou hast fashioned it, and Thou hast breathed it into me, and Thou preservest it within me, and at the appointed time Thou wilt take it from me to return it within me in the future."^ Take heart, act accordingly, make haste and I promise when you return you will see things in a whole new light.
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 ^ By connection with Chakras outside the body like the Soul we connect with Infinite Pure Spiritual Energies which create Health, Wealth, Abundance, Super Intelligence and Genius.
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 ^ By connection with External Chakras like the Soul we connect with Infinite Pure Spiritual Energies which create Health, Wealth, Abundance, Super Intelligence and Genius.
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 .These are the words recited by the Jew every morning in his prayer (Ber.^ Once Bush used the word "crusade" it occurred to me that each and every time Muslims and Christians have their Jihad/Crusade thing going, Jews get killed.
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 60b). .The belief of some, borrowed from Plato, that the body is "a prison-house of the soul" (Wisdom, ix.^ You may house their bodies but not their souls, “For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, “Which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
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 15; Josephus, "B. J." ii. .8, § 11), never took root in Judaism, though the idea that Adam's sin brought death into the world (Wisdom, i.^ Death and decay was brought into the world by the rebellion of man to his Maker.
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 ^ With the sin of Adam came death and the curse.
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 ^ It seems to me that though individuals' ideas are important, organizations do most of the important work in the world.
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 13-16, ii. .21-24) is occasionally voiced by the Rabbis (see Death).^ See Deuteronomy 15:12-18; 21:10-14; 24:17-22; Jeremiah 34:8-20 .
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 .Judaism knows of no "law of sin in the body" of which Paul speaks (Rom.^ "Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are IN CHRIST JESUS, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death.
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 ^ "Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death.
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 vii. 23-25). .Some commentators have found the doctrine of original sin in Ps.^ Bede I found some comments in your post on January 12, 2008 @ 2:27 AM Biblically questionable.
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 li. 7 (see Ibn Ezra and Delitzsch, ad loc.); but the view receives in general no support from rabbinical literature (see Lev. R. xiv. 5), though R. Johanan speaks of "the poison of the serpent" ('Ab. Zarah 22b; comp. Shab. 55b; Naḥmanides on Num. xix. 2; Zohar i. 52; Eccl. R. vii. 13).

Man's Freedom of Will.

The fundamental principle of Judaism (see Maimonides, "Moreh," iii. .17) is that man is free; that is to say, the choice between good and evil has been left to man as a participant of God's spirit.^ The round base of the key symbolises the Earth and the shank of the key symbolises the Antahkarana or the Holy Spirit connection between Earth and God, the Father.
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 "Sin lieth at the door, and unto thee shall be its desire; but thou shalt rule over it" (Gen. iv. 7, Hebr.) says .God to Cain; and herein is laid down for all time the law of man's freedom of will.^ But the rich man has no time for God.
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 ^ In the end though the result is the same as always, a knowledgeable man who starts from the presupposition that god is real and bends all of space and time to make it fit that view.
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 ^ Which is made all the funnier seeing as Christians claim that Jesus was both god and man at the same time.........
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 .Accordingly Moses says in the name of God: "See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; .^ "The order of the geological age names is, therefore, the supposed order of a set of index fossils based on the assumed order of the evolution of life.
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 ^ Where did god come from, how did god become something from nothing or just be, how can infinite complexity come from non-complexity or no complexity, where did gods personality come from, how does god know good from evil, how did god get morals from non-morals or no morals, why should we believe anything god or (you) say etc.
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 ^ And the LORD God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil..."
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 . . therefore choose life" (Deut. xxx. .15, 19); and Ben Sira, commenting upon this, says: "God hath made man from the beginning and left him in the hand of his counsel.^ In the beginning he was made as man and he has remained as man.
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 ^ It seems so obvious to me that man made god.
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 ^ Exd 4:11 And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth?
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 . . . .He hath set fire and water before thee; thou mayest stretch forth thy hand unto whichsoever thou wilt.^ It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, .
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 .Before man is life and death; and whichsoever he liketh, it shall be given him" (Ecclus.^ Him] in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
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 ^ All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and whoever comes to Me I will never drive away…And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that I shall lose none of all that He has given Me.” (John 6:37, 39) .
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 ^ You: "He has given my life meaning and purpose, the ultimate purpose of knowing and serving Him to the capacity that He has enabled me."
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 [Sirach] xv. 14-17). Similarly R. Akiba declares: "All is foreseen; but the mastery [that is, free will] is granted" (Ab. iii. 15). .Another rabbinical saying is, "Everything is determined by Heaven save the fear of Heaven" (Ber.^ Is determinism just another way of saying I believe in fate?
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 33b). .Freedom of will constitutes man's responsibility; and his heavenly prerogative would be impaired were there an inheritance of sin.^ So unspeakably tiny are these genes that, if all of them responsible for all living people in the world could be put in one place, there would be less than a thimbleful.
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 ^ The Constitution says nothing about “moral” freedom or a “covenant between God and man.” These are words that Christians make passionate love to, but to attribute them to the Constitution is absurd.
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 ^ I think you would find there were a few pogroms in response.
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 ."Every man shall be put to death for his own sin," says the Law (Deut.^ The bible says to put them to death.
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 ^ For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering.
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 ^ In every man made religion salvation or getting right with God is something that man achieves by his own good merit, by earning his way to heaven so to speak.
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 xxiv. 16). It is the principle for which the prophet Ezekiel fought (Ezek. xviii. 20). .Accordingly the Rabbis say: "The wicked are under the power of their hearts; the righteous have their hearts in their power" (Gen.^ AR’s view says “might makes right” : whoever has the power has the right.
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 ^ My script says people have the power and the right not to let the sadists use their might.
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 R. lxvii.). .Also, "Man is constantly led along the way he wishes to go.^ He alone understood Enlightenment, because it was an internal experience, yet he wished to point others along the way to self-realization."
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 ^ As my list indicates, the acts against women throughout history have been mechanisms to keep women under control and religion was usually going along with it all the way.
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 ^ That is why unless God has mercy on you and helps you to see His grace and truth, you will continue to go merrily along your way and receive the fruit of your actions.
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 If he wishes to pollute himself by sin, the gates of sin will be opened for him; if he strives for purity, the gates of purity will be opened to him" (Yoma 38a; Mak. 10b; Nid. 30b). Regarding the difficulty of reconciling free will with divine omniscience, see Free Will. Notwithstanding man's propensity to sin, caused by the Yeẓer Ha-Ra', "the leaven in the lump" (Ber. 17a; comp. I Cor. v. 7), and the universal experience of sinfulness (Eccl. vii. 20; Ex. R. xxxi.), rabbinical .Judaism denies that sin is inherited from parents, pointing to Abraham the son of Terah, Hezekiah the son of Ahaz, and others as instances to the contrary (Tan., Ḥuḳḳat, ed.^ BTW Bernie, from the point of view of a child, I can say that children not only want their biological parents to stay together but also love each other.
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 ^ To the contrary, Jesus denied 'selfish ambitions and vain concept and put others above Himself, coming to die on behalf of His people, the elect.
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 ^ To the contrary, Jesus denied selfish ambitions and vain conceit and put others above Himself, coming to die on behalf of His people, the elect.
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 Buber, p. 4, with reference to Job xiv. 4), and insists on the possibility of sinlessness as manifested by various saints (Shab. 55b; Yoma 22b; Eccl. R. i. 8, iii. 2).

Sin and Repentance.

Sin, according to Jewish teaching, is simply erring from the right path, owing chiefly to the weakness of human nature (Num. xv. 26; I Kings viii. 46; Ps. xix. 13, lxxviii. 39, ciii. 14; Job iv. 17-21); only in the really wicked it is insolent rebellion against God and His order ("pesha'" or "resha'"; Isa. lvii. 20; Ps. i. 4-6, xxxvi. 2; and elsewhere). .And there is no sin too great to be atoned for by repentance and reparation (Ezek.^ Do you believe that there was no sin/evil or death in the world until the fall?
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 ^ For now the atheist can justify in his mind his sinful behavior by pretending that there is no evidence for God that he is aware of.
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 ^ "Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death.
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 xviii. 23; Yer. Peah i. 16b; Ḳid. 40b). .The whole conception, then, of mankind's depravity by sin has no place in Judaism, which holds forth the reintegrating power of repentance to Gentiles and Jews, to the ordinary and the most corrupt sinners alike (Pes.^ Yes, I believe there was no sin or evil on the part of mankind before the Fall.
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 ^ No one holds jurisdiction over a complete set of truths and we all understand there is gray intermingled in even the most black and white situation.
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 ^ He remarked that one of his most vivid memories of the place was the degree to which the Austrians blamed the Jews for the hardships of the Germans' defeat.
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 119a; R. H. 17b; Sanh. 103a, 108a; Yoma 86a, b). ."Before God created the world, He created repentance for man as one of his prerequisites" (Pes.^ If God created man, God is responsible for man's flaws.
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 ^ God created a perfect world.
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 ^ Man was created by God.
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 54a; Gen. R. xxi., xxii.; see Repentance; Sin).

Unity of Mankind.

(d)
.The doctrine by which Judaism exerted the greatest influence upon the history of the world is, however, that of the unity of the human family.^ What should surprise you most is that throughout human history millions of people around the world have had similar experiences as a result of prayer and belief in God.
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 .The first eleven chapters of Genesis, whatever the origin of the narrative may be (see Babylonia and Genesis), teach that all the tribes of men have descended from one parent, Adam (= "man"), and that consequently the various races constitute one family.^ It’s all one mans preference over another’s.
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 ^ Anti-theists should take Scientology the "science fiction - master race" religion apart one teaching at a time.
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 ^ "From one man [Adam] He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live."
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 .This doctrine is the logical consequence of the other, the unity of God.^ And His will is that I submit to His authority, including telling others of the Good News concerning His Son and of the consequences of disbelief or hardening ones heart and mind to God.
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 ^ Your world view simply and logically can not support the perfection of God, Adam and Jesus, each one contradicts the perfection of the other two.
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 The theology of Judaism shaped its anthropology also. Childlike as the story of the confusion of tongues at the building of the Tower of Babel may appear (Gen. xi. .1-9, probably based upon an old Babylonian myth relating to the battle of the giants with the celestial gods), the Jewish genius made it convey a great truth, namely: God dispersed men in order to cause the whole earth to be the habitation of the human race, and thus to found and establish the higher unity of man upon the greatest possible diversity.^ God made all human ills.
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 ^ The inhabitants of the earth; the human race.
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 ^ Truth is based upon what is real."
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 .Accordingly the end of history is that the Lord shall "turnto the nations [A. V., incorrectly, "the people"] a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the Lord, to serve Him with one consent" (Zeph.^ People find God when they search for Him with all their heart.
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 ^ Are you willing to call on His name, to believe He is Lord of all?
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 ^ Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son."
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 iii. 9; comp. Gen. ix. 1).
.Here is foreshadowed the world-plan of salvation, the Kingdom of God, an idea peculiar to Judaism.^ It is God's plan to redeem from a fallen mankind those He has chosen to redeem and that He chose to redeem from before the creation of the world.
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 ^ God put the curse here as a reminded of man's actions, and He also provided the plan of redemption.
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 .As Creation is centered upon man, so is the perfection of humanity, through the unfolding of all the powers of man in the world, the aim of the world-drama of history (Gen.^ God created a perfect world.
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 ^ God has created all that is by the power of His word.
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 ^ He is not "frozen" from His creation or unable to act in it for He constantly does so in reacting to the human condition, sending a Flood in judgment of the evil perpetrated by man being one example.
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 i. 28; Isa. xlv. 18). "The world was created for man" (Ber. 6b). ."Abraham, the true type of humanity, would have been the first-created man had God not seen the necessity of making him the restorer of a world corrupted by sin since Adam's day."^ If God were perfect, so would his creation be perfect and our world would be perfect.
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 ^ God gave human beings dominion over the world He created.
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 ^ If God created man, God is responsible for man's flaws.
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 ."The Torah given to Israel on Sinai was originally intended for Adam as the first man; but, seeing that the six Noachian commandments—that is, the unwritten laws of humanity—were kept by him, God reserved the Torah for the descendants of Abraham" (Eccl.^ Our allegiance is to God first and then to man.
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 ^ First, God establishes His covenants with man.
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 ^ Adam, the first man had the ability to believe and listen to God or not listen to God and sin.
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 R. iii. 11; comp. Gen. R. xvi. 9, xxiv. 5). By their non-observance of the Noachian laws (Gen. R. xxiii., xxxviii.) the early generations of men all failed to fulfil the design of the .Creator; Abraham was therefore selected to bring men back to the way of righteousness (Gen.^ Similarly, God is outraged when men turn their backs on His law, for in doing so, they turn their backs on the social and legal restraints that alone keep man from destroying himself and the creation.
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 ^ Therefore the word for virgin would have created confusion on which way this sign was to be interpreted.
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 xviii. 19; Josh. xxiv. .3), and thus to reunite the world by making the God of heaven God of the earth also (Gen.^ God makes foolish the wisdom of this world.
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 ^ "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
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 ^ One only need to read Genesis 1:1 - 1:10 to see that there was a water universe of chaos preexisting that god created the heaven and earth within.
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 R. xxxix. 13, lix. 11).
.The Ten Words of Sinai, too, were intended for every nation; but when all the others refused to accept them and Israel alone merited the priesthood by promising "What the Lord sayeth we will do," the Owner of the whole earth rendered Israel "His peculiar treasure among the nations, a kingdom of priests and a holy nation" (Ex.^ THIS is what I was referring to: Others have rated this comment as follows: Bob Johnson 4 Appstate 2 peeder 2 For an AVERAGE of 2.66 No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
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 ^ The Antahkarana Tower, rainbow bridge, which stretches from the center of the earth through every human being through all the chakras and upwards through chakras outside the body into the center of the Universe.
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 ^ In other words, when the nation is on its knees, the only normal and natural and spiritual thing to do is what we ought to be doing all the time, calling on God."
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 xix. 1-8, xxiv. 7; Mek., Yitro, Bahodesh, 5; Sifre, Deut. 343; Pesiḳ. R. xxi.). .In fact, the Ten Words of Sinai were promulgated in seventy languages in order that they might be understood by all of the seventy nations (Shab.^ In fact they are not the same situation at all.
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 ^ We might just have to ACCEPT that they they are engaging in double-think and can still be reasonable in all other facets of their intellectual life.
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 ^ You hear it from people that should know better, and in fact have their own careful code language that reveals that they know better, realize that they should be ashamed, but nonetheless continue the canards.
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 88b). ."Had Israel not accepted the Law, the world would have been turned into chaos" (Shab.^ We both would agree this could (and even in today’s world can ) turn on a dime.
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 ^ They need to turn Jews into outsiders all the while making it seem like they would be accepted as insiders.
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 ^ If I lived in a different time or even a different part of the world today, if I were illiterate or uneducated or lived in extreme poverty, I would probably be exiled into a marriage of convenience and abuse.
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 88a).

Israel's Mission.

Israel, then, has been chosen, like Israel's ancestor Abraham, the descendant of Shem (Gen. ix. .26-27), to be a blessing to all nations on earth (ib. xii.^ "For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day and made it holy.
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 3, xix. 18); and the name by which the Lord calls him at the Exodus (Ex. iv. .22), "My first-born son," betokens in the language of the time his mission to be that of the priest and teacher in the house-hold of the nations, leading the rest by his precept and example to the worship of the Only One (ib. xix.^ My first language is not English."
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 ^ My first language is not English.
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 ^ It is not my first language you know.
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 6; Isa. lxi. 6). "A people dwelling in solitude and not counted among the nations" (Num. xxiii. 9; Deut. vii. 7), but watched over by divine providence with especial care (Deut. xxvii. 18-19, xxxii. .8-12), the standard-bearer of incomparable laws of wisdom and righteousness in the sight of the nations (ib. iv.^ If man's standards and wisdom is so good, why all the disagreement on who is right?
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 ^ But, on the other hand, it denies that an ethical ideal has the right to prevail if it endangers the existence of a race that is the standard-bearer of a higher ethical ideal.
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 ^ YOU: "The beginning of wisdom is the fear of the LORD. That is an awesome respect of who He is and for His righteous standards" .
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 .5-8), Israel has been created to declare God's praise to the world, to be "His witnesses" (LXX., "martyrs") testifying to His unity, "the light of the nations," and the "covenant of the people to establish the earth" (Isa.^ They have this obsession with Israel, because it's God's chosen people, God's plan.
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 ^ Where the Higher Energy Frequencies of God create the Higher Energy Thoughtforms towards which the Median of the Masses are moved as they evolve and as the Earth Spirit Evolves.
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 ^ In fact, the only reasonable thing this position could be taken to encompass is that these people are supportive of Israel's continued existence as a nation.
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 xliii. 10, 21; xlix. 6-8). ."To Israel's house of God the nations shall flock to be taught of His ways and to learn to walk in His paths."^ It is humans who are the nay-sayers and sinners; humans who need salvation; humans that have a soul that must be saved and it is humans who must suffer to learn of God’s ways.
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 ^ But we must walk the lonely path with God alone and every journey remains unique.
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 ^ Israel is a prime example of a nation that kept doing what was right in their own eyes, although they had the revelation of God as their guide.
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 .This is to bring humanity back to its normal condition, peace and bliss on earth, because righteousness will then prevail everywhere and the whole "earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord" (Isa.^ The VÖLKISCH belief holds that humanity must have its ideals, because ideals are a necessary condition of human existence itself.
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 ^ Isa 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
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 ^ YOU: "Isa 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel."
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 ii. 2-4, ix. 6, xi. 4-9, lxv. 25; Micah iv. 1-4). .Israel, who when redeemed from Egypt proclaimed God as King (Ex.^ Just as little did it avail their ancestors at the time of the kings of Israel that they bore God's name, yet called him Baal.
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 xv. 19; Lev. R. ii. .4), received the truth of Sinai as a trust; he is never to rest until his God shall become king of the whole earth, until all men and nations shall bend the knee before Him (Zech.^ I trust God and take His word as truth.
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 ^ You do not need a vast knowledge of Scripture, but you need to trust His word, for His word is truth and He did call us to worship Him with our whole being; mind, body, spirit and heart.
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 ^ He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together."
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 xiv. 9; Isa. xl. 5, xlv. 13, xlix. 19; Ps. xxii. 29 [A. V. 28], xlvii. 9 [8], lxxvii. 5 [4], xcvi.-xcix.). ."Israel, who proclaims God's unity, is proclaimed by God as His unique people" (Mek., Beshallaḥ, Shirah, 3).^ They have this obsession with Israel, because it's God's chosen people, God's plan.
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 .Israel, as the people of the saints of the Most High, is to establish the kingdom of God to last forever (Dan.^ They have this obsession with Israel, because it's God's chosen people, God's plan.
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 ^ I hope that the people of Israel, most of whom I believe are decent at heart, will turn away from racism and religious extremism and will follow the example of Rabin.
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 ii. 44, vii.). .But as teacher and guardian of mankind's purest faith and loftiest hope, he is dealt with more severely by God for every transgression (Jer.^ As one who is not unfamiliar with the gods of the non-Abrahamic faiths, it might take a little more than parroting Deepak Chopra's words about the fetish of the Abrahamic God.
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 ^ Faith in God that is real and based on reason(for me at the level of reason God is the uncreated Creator of the Big Bang)results in experiences more than the placebo effect as a result of prayer.
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 ^ When I do choose to believe in, and listen to God, he could not be more clear about the fact that your faith grossly misguided and lost.
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 ii. 21; Ezek. xx. 33-41; Amos iii. 2). .Nay more, as the servant of God he has been chosen for continual martyrdom in the cause of truth and justice; he, therefore, is the "man of sorrows" whose affliction is to bring healing to the world and to lead many to righteousness (Isa.^ My old grandmother is right-how can they do this to God's chosen people?
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 ^ God in all his wisdom has found much better ways to communicate with the more perceptive seekers after truth among his chosen people.
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 ^ YOU: 'Why would they be so truthful in so many matters and yet make up a story of a man resurrecting from the dead?
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 lii-liii.; see Servant of God).
.Whether the expectation is that the universal kingdom of God on earth will be brought about by an ideal king from the house of David, the Messiah, as Isaiah and his followers depict the future of Israel (Isa.^ There is nothing unbelievable about a man named Jesus living on the earth and walking around telling people he is God's son.
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 ^ YOU: "Peter, really this is so silly, anyone can read Isaiah and see that what is being said is about current events and not future ones.
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 ^ GAD: "You really haven't addressed any of the issues, like Jesus being god, the water universe, the flat earth etc."
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 xi. 1 et seq.; Ezek. xxxiii. 24), or by the dispersed people of Israel itself, as the seer of the Exile (Isa. lvi.-lxvi.) indicates .(see Messiah); whether or not the great day when all flesh shall worship the Lord will be preceded by a day of divine judgment when all the wicked "shall be stubble" (Mal.^ (See Matthew 5-7) The Lord rose on the Sunday, the Lord’s Day, and that is the day that I as a Christian set aside to worship with other Christians and celebrate His goodness to us.
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 ^ Think about all those "dead" ovaries and sperm our parents produced that never made it to see the light of day.
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 ^ "The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man's judgments: 'For who has known the mind of the Lord that He may instruct him?'
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 iii. 19, 21 [A. V. iv. 3]; see Day of the Lord; Eschatology; Gog and Magog), Judaism by its idea of a divine kingdom of truth and righteousness to be built on earth gave to mankind a hope and to history a goal for which to live and strive through the centuries. Other nations beheld in the world's process a continual decline from a golden age of happiness to an iron age of toil, until in a great catastrophe of conflagration and ruin the end of all things, of men and gods, is to be reached: Judaism points forward to a state of human perfection and bliss to be brought about by the complete unfolding of the divine in man or the revelation of God's full glory as the goal of history. And herein lies its great distinction also from Christianity. .Judaism's scope lies not in the world beyond, the world of the spirit, of which man on earth can have no conception.^ The conception of god rises from a divine faculty of man, unshared with the rest of our world the faculty we call imagination.
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 ^ (Mark 10:6; Matthew 19:4) Is the Bible lying when it says that sin entered the world through one man, and in this way death came to all men?
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 ^ Notice the verse says, "and when Saul arose from the earth; and when his eyes were opened, he saw no man."
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 .Both the hope of resurrection and that of immortality, in some form or other familiar and indispensable to all tribes and creeds, seem evidently to have come to the Jews from without—the one from Persia or Babylonia, the other from Greece.^ I hope you will one day come to your senses Lindajean.
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 ^ The other couple that comes to mind is an Aussie one: The man was eighty two years old and his wife eighty years old when I met them.
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 ^ YOU: "Men seem to be able to have X without all the emotional stuff in non-committed relationships, but I argue most women cannot.
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 Judaism itself rests on neither (see Eschatology; Immortality; Resurrection). .Its sole aim and purpose is to render the world that now is a divine kingdom of truth and righteousness; and this gives it its eminently rational, ethical, and practical character.^ "Atheistic worldview do not have the answers and cannot make sense of this world as to meaning, purpose, truth, morals, origins, justice, etc."
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 ^ "Non religious" is the fastest growing demographic in the world right now.
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 ^ Why give them these “higher level” attributes if their purpose is solely for man’s sustenance, pleasure, power (and abuse)?
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II. Character of Judaism:

Judaism has a twofold character: (1) universal, and (2) particular or national. .The one pertains to its religious truths destined for the world; the other, to its national obligationsconnected with its priestly mission.^ ME: "Your presuppostions do not allow you to see the world in any other way other than the one you have been indoctrinated into from the time you were a child," .
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 ^ Is this scenario proposed, possible in anything other than a supernatural and religious world?"
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 ^ "Your presuppostions do not allow you to see the world in any other way other than the one you have been indoctrinated into from the time you were a child," .
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 .Upon the former more stress is laid by the Prophets and by most of the sacred poets, by the Alexandrian propagandists and the Palestinian haggadists, as well as by the medieval philosophers and the modern Reform school; whereas the Mosaic law, the Halakah, and the Talmudic and cabalistic schools dwell almost exclusively upon the latter.^ Yes, most institutions in modern society could benefit from reform.
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 ^ Explain why you call the activity "higher" vs "lower" and explain why the former deserves more consideration than the latter.
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 ^ We need to remind them that they are breaking the laws they purport to hold most sacred.
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.As a universal religion Judaism differs from all other religions in that it is not a creed or a system of beliefs upon the acceptance of which redemption or future salvation depends (see Articles of Faith).^ This is not a faith or belief in any religion or god.
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 ^ All others are going on faith.
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 ^ And if it is right, all other religions are wrong.
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 .It is a system of human conduct, a law of righteousness which man should follow in order to live thereby (Lev.^ No we are not; we are talking about justice for breaking God’s laws, for in theory justice should be sought when someone breaks a law of the land or country in which they live otherwise you live in anarchy.
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 ^ No we are not; we are talking about justice for breaking God’s laws, for in theory justice should be sought when someone breaks a law of the land of the country in which they live otherwise you live in anarchy.
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 ^ And so He condemned sin in sinful man, in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit.
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 xviii. .5); that is, according to R. Meïr, the law of humanity, since "man" is spoken of and not Israel nor priest nor Levite (Sifra, Aḥare Mot; 'Ab.^ And so He condemned sin in sinful man, in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit.
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 ^ Since God the Son is eternal Spirit, logically He cannot die, therefore, the death was the death of His human body to satisfy God's righteous judgment on our behalf for it was man who broke God's just laws and man must answer for his wrongdoing for, .
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 ^ And since, my soul, we cannot fly To Saturn nor to Mercury, Keep we must, if keep we can, These foreign laws of God and man.
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 Zarah 3a; comp. Sanh. 59a, where the meaning of R. Meïr's words is altered). It is a law "for life and not for the depriving of man's life" (Sifra, l.c.). .When, in answer to a heathen mocker, Hillel summed up the entire Law in the Golden Rule: "What is hateful to thee do not unto thy neighbor" (the Targumic translation of "Love thy neighbor as thyself"; Lev.^ So this rule sums up the law.
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 ^ I can practice love thy neighbor and not be a Christian.
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 ^ When you accuse me of having a zeal against godlessness, it almost sounds like you are insinuating that I have a zeal against "love thy neighbor", where as you do not.
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 xix. 18; Shab. 31b; see Ab. R. N., Recension B, xxvi., ed. Schechter, p. 53, where the answer is ascribed to R. Akiba instead; comp. Sifra, Ḳedoshim, iv.), he simply voiced the truth of which Abraham and Job are set up as types, and which is expressed by lawgiver (Deut. iv. 8) and prophet (Isa. i. 10-17, xxxiii. 15; Hos. vi. 6; Amos v. 21-24; Micah vi. 6-8; Zech. viii. 16-17), by the Psalmist (Ps. xv., xxiv., xxxiv. 13-15) and the Book of Wisdom, as well as by the Rabbis (Mek. 23b-24a). .Whereas heathenism by its cults of Moloch and similar gods fostered cruelty, the Torah enjoined man "to walk in the ways of a righteous and merciful God, and be righteous and merciful like Him" (Deut.^ Rights like god are man made, and what man giveth man can take away.
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 ^ God has created man in His image and likeness, with man having the ability to reason and make choices.
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 ^ If the creature could only make the right choices then the creature would be programmed by God to only choose good, whereas God created His creature, man, with the ABILITY to choose to know the difference between good and evil, just by disobedience evil would come to pass and become reality.
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 xi. 22; Sifre, Deut. 49; Mek., Beshallaḥ, Shirah); to love the stranger and protect the fatherless and the widow as He does (Deut. x. 17-20).

Justice to All.

Judaism is, above all, the law of justice. .Whereas in heathendom, except in the case of some exalted philosopher like Plato, might was deified, and the oppressed, the slave, and the stranger found no protection in religion, the declaration is everywhere made throughout Scripture that injustice committed by man against man provokes the wrath of the world's Ruler and Judge (Ex.^ I think Bernie Bee made some very good points, and his central point, that religions view pain and suffering as "we have to go through Hell to get to Heaven", was spot on!
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 ^ "Religion for the most part is a man made philosophy.
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 ^ No matter how much you try to blame man, God made man.
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 xxi. 22-23; Gen. vi. 13, xviii. 20; Deut. xxvii. 15-26; Amos i. 3-ii. .8; and elsewhere), and that righteousness and compassionate love are demanded for the oppressed, the slave, the poor, the fatherless and homeless, the stranger, and for the criminal as having a claim on the sympathy of his fellow men; even for the dumb creature compassion is required (Ex.^ LJ continues: "Women need to understand that men will have x without love even though for most women x without love is not natural or a choice they would make for themselves" .
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 ^ Men who fall in love want their partners to be monogamous even as they (men) continue to be promiscuous.
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 ^ You can make the claim that people have learned through history which standard is right and loving and compassionate and just, but take a look at different cultures and you will see that it is not necessarily the case.
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 xxii. 20-26, xxiii. 5-6; Deut. xxii. 6; xxiv. 6, 10-xxv. 4; Job xxxi.). This is the "Torah" of which Isaiah speaks (Isa. i. .10), the "commandment" put by God upon every human heart (Deut.^ Obedience to God's commandments based on love for Him and love for all human beings is what real religion is about.
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 ^ Beside this law written in their hearts, they received a command, not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which while they kept, they were happy in their communion with God,and had dominion over the creatures.
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 ^ You are just a human being like me who has put your faith into something; in your case evolution, in mine God.
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 xxx. 11-14). And this spirit of justice permeates the Talmudic literature also. ."For righteousness is one of the pillars of the world" (Ab.^ You think you have the right view of the world, or at least you think these people have the wrong one, or you wouldnt mind that they express them.
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 ^ We could very well be living in a world right now where no one has used a nuclear device on anyone.
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 ^ The fact that, if one religion is right, then all the others must be wrong, doesn't matter in her world.
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 i. 18). ."Where right is suppressed war comes upon the world" (ib. iv.^ A fossil does not come stamped, "Died in 100,000 B.C." The date is something you read into the fossil depending upon your world-view.
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 8). "The execution of justice is one of the Noachian laws of humanity" (Sanh. 56b). ."Justice is demanded alike for the Gentile and the Jew" (Mak.^ We have already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under sin.
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 24a; B. Ḳ. 113a; and other quotations in Baḥya b. Joseph's "Ḳad ha-Kemaḥ," ch. "Gezelah"). To have due regard for the honor of all fellow creatures ("kebod ḥaberiyyot"; Tos., B. Ḳ. vii. 10) is one of the leading principles of rabbinic law (Shab. 94b).

Purity and Truth.

Judaism furthermore is the law of purity. Heathenism by its orgiastic cults of Baal-peor, Astarte, and the like, fostered impurity and incest (Lev. xviii. 3, 24-30; Num. xxv. 1-9; Deut. iv. 3). .The Torah warns against fornication, and teaches purity of heart and of action (Num.^ In your heart of hearts you are rebelling against your Maker, and unless He gives you a change of heart, one day you will stand before Him and give account for you wrongful actions.
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 xv. 39; Deut. xxiii. 18-19, xxiv. 15; Prov. vii. 5-27; Job xxxi. .1), because God is too pure to tolerate unchastity in man or in woman (see Holiness; Purity).^ God is pure and holy.
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 ^ Which is made all the funnier seeing as Christians claim that Jesus was both god and man at the same time.........
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 ^ He was looking at the inner condition of this man and seeing that he was not willing to put God above his earthly riches.
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 Judaism resents every act of lewdness as "nebalah" = "villainy" (Gen. xxxiv. 7, 31; Deut. xxii. 21; Judges xix. 24; II Sam. xiii. .12; see Folly), and most severely condemns lascivious talk (Isa.^ The text does not give the details of the in between, as Paul does in 2 Corinthians 12, as well as talking of Jesus appearing and of him seeing Him."
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 ^ The text does not give the details of the in between, as Paul does in 2 Corinthians 12, as well as talking of Jesus appearing and of him seeing Him.
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 ix. 16; Shab. 33a).
Judaism is, moreover, the law of truth. Its God is the God of truth (Jer. x. 10). "The seal of the Holy One is truth" (Gen. R. lxxxi.; see Alpha and Omega). .Abraham, Moses, Jeremiah, Job, and Ḳohelet wrestled with God in doubt until He revealed Himself to them in a higher form (Gen.^ God has revealed Himself to us by His perfect, true, living Word and in order to hear what He says we need to correctly interpret that word.
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 ^ God is infinite and we get to perceive only glimpses of Him in many ways as He reveals Himself in different ways to different persons."
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 ^ Without an accurate understanding of who He is, as He Himself has revealed Himself, we are guilty of worshiping false gods.
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 xviii. 25; Ex. xxxii.-xxxiii.; Jer. xii. 1; Job xxxi. 35). .And as the Prophets had perfect faith in God as the God of truth and therefore shrank from hypocrisy (Yer.^ God is therefore not perfect.
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 ^ And therefore, if you are claiming that your god is perfect, your God does not exist.
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 ^ YOU: "The truth be told: Creationist and ID believers hold that accepting a scientific view of evolution will challenge their faith in god.
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 Ber. vii. .11c), so did all the Jewish philosophers show perfect confidence in truth while boldly expressing their lofty views concerning the Deity and divesting God of every trace of Anthropomorphism and Anthropopathism and of every attribute infringing upon the spirituality and unity of God.^ Should I not argue or reason with them out of concern for their eternal well-being to show them the error and destructiveness of their ways and point them to the truth?
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 ^ I have tried as well as I can to sympathize with Soja's views in the hope that they would open a window on the wider "spiritual" eterprise that Bede Griffiths had embarked upon.
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 ^ In matters concerning the first statement: I argue that from a philosophical and physiological point of view there are different kinds of love.
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 .It was, says the Talmud, the last will of Canaan that his children should not speak the truth and should love lasciviousness (Pes.^ You honestly think that people, not in love anymore, should stay together for the sake of the children?
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 ^ But now you are saying that I, LJ need to separate love from X? That is like me saying you should not be promiscuous.
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 ^ No parent should ever lie to their children and tell them that their love for them is everlasting, just tell them the truth that no parent can make that kind of promise.
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 113b). "The Torah of Moses is truth" and "desires men to speak the truth and assent to the truth, even as God Himself assents to the truth when honestly spoken"; for "Upon truth rests the world" (B. B. 74a; Ps. xv. 2; Ab. R. N. xxxvii.; Ab. i. 18). .This honest search for truth made Judaism, indeed, the world's great power for truth as well as for righteousness.^ For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities - His eternal power and divine nature - have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse."
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 ^ Indeed, this is the false foundation of practically all religions - the belief that we can 'understand' the world by prayer, worship or submission to an All-powerful God.
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 ^ Without absolute democratic governments that understand the concept of “individual rights” and “civil rights” will you have “the powers that be get away with [it].” It wasn’t Christianity that saved the world from Hitler.
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Judaism promotes and fosters education and culture. .In contrast to such systems of faith as foster ignorance of the masses, it renders it a duty for the father to instruct his children and for the community to provide for the general instruction of old and young (see Education; Philosophy).^ I said: "My idea is for Gov to educate and provide knowledge to people about successful ways to raise healthy and well-adjusted children.
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 ^ I am not saying you believe this, only that I think most people would see it that way because of a lack of scientific understanding of such complex systems.
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 ^ "I am not saying you believe this, only that I think most people would see it that way because of a lack of scientific understanding of such complex systems."
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 .It sanctifies labor, and makes the teaching of a trade whereby a livelihood may be earned a duty incumbent upon the father or upon the municipal authority (see Labor, Holiness of).^ May the LORD bless you and keep you and make His face to shine upon you and be gracious to you and give you peace!
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 ^ See, where 'mid work of his own hand he lies, Fretted by sallies of his mother's kisses, With light upon him from his father's eyes!
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 .It makes the systematic care of the poor a duty of the community with a view to the dignity and self-help of the recipient (See Charity).^ None the less, I can certainly see someone making the statement "I don't much care for hippies.
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 ^ The impact we have on global warming will effect us directly, so it makes sense from a self interested perspective, to care about it.
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 ^ It is, at its core, a system of applying brutal honesty to your view of reality, of letting go of your preconceptions of the very core of our way of seeing things (self, other, things).
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 .It denounces celibacy as unlawful, and enjoins each man to build a home and to contribute to the welfare of human society (see Marriage).^ Bill is contributing to the welfare of society.
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 .The high priest in Israel was not allowed to officiate on the Day of Atonement unless he had a wifeliving with him (Yoma i.^ "No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day."
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 ^ In your heart of hearts you are rebelling against your Maker, and unless He gives you a change of heart, one day you will stand before Him and give account for you wrongful actions.
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 ^ For now, His permissive will allows man to rebellion against Him, but He has set a day when He will judge the living and the dead.
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 1; comp. Ta'an. ii. 2). .It enjoins love of country and loyalty to the government, no matter how unfriendly it be to the Jew (Jer.^ Take if frae me Soja, no matter what others tell ye, it is impossible for a normal human being tae love a chimera, an imaginary being, more than another human being no matter how fleetingly!
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 ^ No matter how much you try to blame man, God made man.
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 ^ "As I said before, what evidence would you accept and the answer is none, no matter how convincing it is.
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 xxix. 7; Ab. iii. 2; Ket. 111a; see Patriotism).
Judaism is a religion of joy, and it desires that man should rejoice before God and gratefully enjoy all His gifts, at the same time filling other hearts with joy and thanksgiving. Especially are its Sabbath and festal days seasons of joy with no austerity about them. Judaism discourages asceticism (see Asceticism; Joy).

The Religion of Joy, Hope, and Love.

Judaism is a religion of hope. It teaches men to recognize in pain and sorrow dispensations of divine goodness. .It is optimistic, because it does not defer hope merely to the world to come, but waits for the manifestation of God's plans of wisdom and goodness in the moral and spiritual advancement of man.^ God makes foolish the wisdom of this world.
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 ^ Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?"
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 ^ God confirms that it would not make sense to the wisdom that comes from this world.
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 .While the present world is, in comparison to the future one, declared to be "like the vestibule wherein one prepares for the palace," it is nevertheless stated that "one hour devoted to repentance and good works in this world is more valuable than the entire life of the world to come" (Ab.^ More than one version?
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 ^ He has prepared me with more ammunition for future "Peter-like" engagements.
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 ^ Seems like the work of three rather than one.
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 iv. .16-17); for "to-day is the time for working out one's destiny, while to-morrow is the time for receiving compensation" ('Er.^ Regarding getting the word out, I like to think we can shout from the rooftops and work quietly in the trenches at the same time.
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 ^ Those people who go out and get remarried fall into the same divorce statistics as the one's doing it for the first time.
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 ^ Few can, but for those of us who can, we only have to work one hour a day, three days a week, and do the odd TV show, to make a ridiculous amount of money.
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 22a).
As its highest aim and motive Judaism regards the love of God. .Twice every day the Jew recites the Shema', which contains the words: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, with all thy soul, and with all thy might" (Deut.^ It's all about taking God at His Word.
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 ^ God has created all that is by the power of His word.
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 ^ First of all, God is living, loving, personal and warm hearted.
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 vi. .5); this verse is understood to enjoin him to willingly surrender life and fortune whenever the cause of God demands it, while it at the same time urges him to make God beloved by all his fellow creatures through deeds of kindness, as Abraham did (Sifre, Deut.^ Time had a beginning, God did not.
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 ^ God does not make any duplicates at all.
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 ^ But God created all creatures.
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 32). .This love of God implies the most unselfish devotion and the purest motive of action; that is, acting not from fear, but rather for God's sake alone (Sifre, Deut.^ Without acts of love or compassion we would not survive one day in this world you claim was created by God.
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 ^ If God is in there, he wants me to listen to him alone, and most definitely not the Jews Muslims and Christians.
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 ^ Certain verses would imply that God loves little children especially.
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 32, 48; Ab. ii. .12); doing good not in view of any reward in the world to come (Ab.^ So again your world-view has zero capacity and capability in answering why I should believe that you know what good is.
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 ^ Where do you ever see something coming from nothing and yet your world-view expects one to believe that all this just happened without any reasonable explanation?
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 ^ In your world view where does your authority come from and how can you know it is true?
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 i. 3), but for its own sake (see Schreiner, "Die Jüngsten Urtheile über das Judenthum," 1902, pp. 145-151); and it also implies the love of man (Deut. x. .12-19; see Love).^ (Proverbs 27:19; see also Matthew 12:33-37) .
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Judaism, finally, is a system of sanctification of life. .It teaches that the whole of life is holy, because God is manifested in it: "Be holy, for the Lord your God is holy" (Lev.^ Is God working in your life?
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 ^ You need God’s grace to respond because of your hatred towards Him.
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 ^ And I don't need any "authority" (someone else's approval or your God) to make this conclusion; I am not discounting your evidence because up to this point in time there has simply been no evidence to discount.
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 xix. 1, Hebr.). Even in the functions of animal life the presence of a holy God should be realized (Deut. xxiii. .15); and when the perfect state of humanity shall have been attained, every road will be a holy road free from impurity (Isa.^ The world and its creatures were in a perfect state, free from all these things.
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 ^ So they were created with the potential to live as perfect human beings, free of corruption and decay and judgment.
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 xxxv. .8), and "In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, Holy unto the Lord" (Zech.^ "For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day and made it holy.
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 ^ Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water.
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 ^ Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy."
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 xiv. 20, R. V.).

National Character of Judaism.

(2)
.The striking feature of Judaism, however, is that, while containing the highest spiritual and ethical truths for humanity, it is bound up with the Jewish nation.^ This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.
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 ^ On this planet of ours human culture and civilization are indissolubly bound up with the presence of the Aryan.
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 ^ Atheism is NOT my ethical system, however - that is humanism.
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 .The One and Only God, Yhwh, is Israel's God in particular (Sifre, Deut.^ Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son."
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 ^ To paraphrase the atheist argument "the only difference is we've gone one god further" I've gone one choose further...
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 ^ From this statement, we can know that there is only one way to God and that Jesus Christ is that way, no exceptions.
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 .31); and the separation of Israel from the rest of the nations in order to distinguish it as God's people is the express purpose of the Torah (Lev.^ Without God all the injustices that people and nations have gotten away with will go unpunished.
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 ^ YOU: "You say killing innocent people is wrong, I show a couple of the many example where gods kills or orders the innocent killed, no response for you (back to dogging Lindajean)."
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 ^ You said killing/murder is wrong, I showed where god kills and orders people killed, you claim is it somehow not the same.
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 xx. 24, 26), and the characteristic trait of Judaism from the time of Ezra (Ezra vi. 21; Neh. x. 21) and of the Scribes or Pharisees (see Pharisees). .This national distinctness or aloofness of the Jew has brought him all the hostility, persecutions, and bitter attacks of a surrounding world from the days of Haman (Esth.^ Acts 17:31 Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
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 ^ For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile - the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on Him, for, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."
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 ^ All that relates to or affects the life of a person: He saw his world collapse about him.
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 iii. .8) and of Apion in Alexandria down to the most recent times (see Anti-Semitism; Apion).^ You shouldn't be wasting your time with my most recent post.
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 ^ Most are not anti-semitic nowadays, ask them why the only color in Schindler's List was the little girl wearing the red coat?
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 Even such historians as Mommsen ("Rümische Gesch." 1885, v. 487), Ed. Meyer ("Gesch. des Alterthums," iii. 167-236), Harnack ("Die Mission und Ausbreitung des Christenthums," 1902, p. 16), and Bousset ("Wesen der Religion des Judenthums," 1903, pp. .128-157) see in Judaism only a national religion, in Israel's God a national God.^ I can only point out that most true believers (theists) make the same argument about their god and religion.
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 ^ There is only one true religion, that stemming from God's revelation of Himself to mankind.
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 ^ Israel is a prime example of a nation that kept doing what was right in their own eyes, although they had the revelation of God as their guide.
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 .Nay, it may be affirmed without exaggeration that a just and unprejudiced estimate of Judaism is found nowhere in modern Christian writings (see Schreiner, l.c.).^ Where do you ever see something coming from nothing and yet your world-view expects one to believe that all this just happened without any reasonable explanation?
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 ^ As such it is the thing you use to make sense of what you see, in as much as you can without borrowing capital from the Christian worldview.
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 ^ I would just like to point out that while I may generalize and/or exaggerate some of my points, the points still stand and using hyperbole as a counter argument is just a cheap shot.
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 .The fact of the matter is that Judaism, while representing the guardianship of the universal religious truths for humanity, surrounded the Jewish people, as the priestly people of the world's Only God, with laws and rites of a specific national character in order to keep these very truths forever intact and at the same time to invest the guardians of them with the sanctity of the world's priesthood.^ So people believing in God doesn't matter?
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 ^ That is not the only time people get hurt.
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 ^ These absolutes only come from God.
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 ."The people of Israel have from the beginning sworn fidelity to God and have recognized Him as the world's Ruler" (Ber.^ Bleak is 99% of the world suffering for all eternity in a torture zone created by a god as the price for not being good enough to worshiping for him for all eternity.
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 ^ In fact it is perplexing to me that billions of people are "religious"---a great majority of the world's population-- and we still have more evil than any god could ever wish for.
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 ^ Peter: “Science believes the universe and this world had a beginning, whereas God proclaims He is without beginning, so which is more feasible?
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 6a; Ḥag. .3a); therefore have they been called "the sons of God" (Deut.^ We depend on God, the Persons of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, not a cosmic force called awareness.
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 ^ Isa 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
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 ^ YOU: "Matt 1:23 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us."
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 xiv. 1; Ab. iii. 13). .Yet their especial sonship of God implies that they should be faithful to Him unto death, and by continued self-surrender and martyrdom should glorify His name before the world throughout the ages (Sifra, Emor, iv., on Lev.^ They should have been able to save the world by now.
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 ^ Both had broken His commands, yet God chose (before the foundation of the world) to have mercy and compassion on Jacob and hold Esau accountable for his rebellion.
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 ^ QUESTION: "Why should anyone be nice to anyone else (remember that they are, so there must be a reason, but you can' use god because your an atheist)" .
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 xxii. 32-33; comp. Ps. xliv. 18-23; Dan. iii.; II Macc. vii.; and Ḳiddush ha-Shem).

The Jews a Separate People.

The Sinaitic covenant which rendered Israel "a kingdom of priests and a holy nation" (Ex. xix. 6) became, the Rabbis say, "a source of hatred to the nations" (Shab. .89a: a play upon words, "Sinai"—"Sin'ah"), because it separated it from them by statutes and ordinances such as the dietary and the Levitical purity laws and others intended to prevent idolatrous practises.^ (John 1:4-5), and again, "because in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death.
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 ^ "Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death.
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 ^ (Romans 5:12-14) Man, by his evil behavior is the one who brings upon inhumanity and cruelty to his fellow man and other creatures by his sin.
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 .Like the priest in the Temple, whose garments and mode of life distinguished him from the rest in order to invest him with the spirit of greater sanctity and purity (I Chron.^ Because I do not know those whose hearts and lives the Holy Spirit is acting in and who He will bring to repentance and eternal life.
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 ^ Without the working of the Holy Spirit in his life the Bible confirms that the preaching of the cross is foolishness to him.
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 ^ Here he is interpreting God correctly, and following the rules, and yet he has to watch everyone else around him disobey the rules, and deny the truth, and he will have to watch this for the rest of his life.
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 xxiii. .13), so Israel was for all time to be impressed with its priestly mission by all those ceremonies which form so prominent a feature in its religious life (see Ceremonies; Circumcision; Commandments; Dietary Laws).^ Also, Parabola magazine features writings by people of all kinds of religious and mythological traditions without adopting any official position: .
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 ^ Should a political group be formed by those who feel that the world needs to wake up from this long religious nightmare?
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 ^ We are in need of absolute morals (in the form of laws) that protect innocent people from harm, especially harm from those in power, unleashed technologies, and/or ignoble and errant religious beliefs.
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 .Particularly the Mosaic and, later on, the Pharisaic laws had for their object the separation of the Jewish people from all those influences prevalent in heathendom which led to idolatry and impurity; wherefore not only intermarriage, but also participation in any meal or other festive gathering which could possibly be connected with idol-worship was prohibited (see Worship, Idol-; Intermarriage; Jubilees, Book of.^ You wrote, "So Rabbi Wolpe walks around with a book under his arm that is filled with hate and contempt for anyone other then Jews but talks about love for all people and says that god didn't really intend for the Jews to follow his laws but to raise above them."
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 ^ We are in need of absolute morals (in the form of laws) that protect innocent people from harm, especially harm from those in power, unleashed technologies, and/or ignoble and errant religious beliefs.
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 ^ (See Matthew 5-7) The Lord rose on the Sunday, the Lord’s Day, and that is the day that I as a Christian set aside to worship with other Christians and celebrate His goodness to us.
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 ) This persistent avoidance of association with the Gentiles on the part of the Pharisees, which in the time of the Maccabees was termed ἀμξία = "keepingapart from the surrounding nations" (comp. II Macc. xiv. .38), became the chief cause of the accusation of a "hatred of mankind" which was brought against the Jews by the Greeks and Romans, and which has ever since been reiterated by the anti-Semites (see Schürer, "Gesch."^ The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.
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 ^ There have been countless numbers of them since ancient Greek and Roman times to the present day!
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 ^ I can’t follow how either of them can make these accusations since I never gave them cause.
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 iii. 3, 416).
.In reality these very laws of seclusion fitted the Jew for his herculean task of battling for the truth against a world of falsehood, and enabled him to resist the temptations and to brave the persecutions of the nations and the ages.^ These are very real possibilities.
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 ^ Or for us to have an awareness raising that monogamy is a completely religious idea that doesn't play out in the real world very well.
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 ^ And if he were real, I would tell him that I don't think he is always a very kind, or loving God.
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 .They imbued him with a spirit of loyalty unparalleled in human history; they inculcated in him the principle of abstinence, enabling him to endure privation and torture; and filled him with that noble pride which alone upheld him amidst the taunts and sneers of high and low.^ Again Lindajean, the Bible confirms over and over again that the man/woman without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God for they are foolishness to him/her.
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 ^ The early Christians were transformed by the bodily appearance of Jesus Christ after He had been crucified and they had witnessed Him dead, and that witness of Him after being dead, along with His teachings, changed the course of history.
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 ^ Humans are human because they have in evolutionary time recognized the Goof in one of the countless forms that human history records.
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 They brought out those traits of manhood which characterized Abraham, who, according to the Rabbis, was called '"Ibri " (Hebrew) because his maxim was: "Let all the world stand on the one side ["'eber eḥad"]—I side with God and shall win in the end" (Gen. R. xlvi.). .But these laws also fostered a conception of the sanctity of life unknown to other creeds or races.^ Because of these, and host of other examples, there is not one chance in millions that life on our planet is an accident.
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 ^ But the fact that this conception of the world still maintains its independent existence in face of all the others proves that their ways of looking at life are quite difierent from this.
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 ^ To continue: "Because of these, and host of other examples, there is not one chance in millions that life on our planet is an accident."
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 .By investing the commonest act and event with religious obligations, they made the whole of life earnest and holy with duty.^ They also want to believe because their arch opponents - religious fundamentalists such as creationists - do not believe in life's spontaneous origin.
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 ^ "From one man [Adam] He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live."
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 ^ Because I do not know those whose hearts and lives the Holy Spirit is acting in and who He will bring to repentance and eternal life.
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 .Instead of being "a yoke of servitude," as Schürer and others have it, they "filled the home and the festal seasons with higher joy" (see Schechter and Abrahams in "J. Q. R." iii.^ And why couldn’t we come intae season for just a few weeks instead of being made randy every blessed day of the year!
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 ^ This is easy to see with the Abrahamic god since he states that he is the reason and purpose of "why is there something instead of nothing".
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 ^ "And why couldn’t we come intae season for just a few weeks instead of being made randy every blessed day of the year!
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 762 et seq., xi. 626 et seq.).

III. Judaism in Its Relation to the Gentile World:

Notwithstanding its unmitigated severity against heathenism with its folly and vice, and against every mode of compromise therewith, Judaism does not, like other creeds, consign the non-believer to eternal doom. .It judges men not by their creed, but by their deeds, demanding righteous actions and pure motives, since "fear of God" signifies fear of Him who looketh into the heart (Sifra, Aḥare Mot, iii.^ Men know God's righteous standard and anything that is against it will be judged by God.
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 ^ I do not know in who's heart God is at work.
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 ^ Acts 17:31 Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
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 2). It declares through R. Joshua b. .Hananiah, whose opinion is generally accepted, that "the righteous of all nations have a share in the world to come"; the Shammaite R. Eliezer in consigning all heathen to Gehenna bases his argument on the Scriptural verse Ps.^ Since no one seems to be able to do that (and incompatible determinism doesn't sound right), that's where all the other flavors come in.
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 ^ ME: "Well Gad, first you have to show me how you are using your reasoning in determining where morals come from, how something can and has come from nothing, and all the other arguments I have presented against your world-view before you call mine childish.
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 ^ I doubt I could get Peter to come on stage with me, but there's nothing he can do to stop me from taking his insane arguments on stage with me and presenting them to the world for laughter.
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 ix. .18 (A. V. 17), into which he reads, "The wicked are turned to Sheol because all heathen forget God"—not as R. Joshua does, "all those heathen that forget God" (Sanh.^ God does not make any duplicates at all.
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 ^ Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son."
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 ^ All education does this by simplifying the messy truth about reality into a nice just-so story.
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 105a). .It is the moral depravity ascribed to the heathen, owing to his unchaste and violent habits, which is the cause of all the harsh haggadic expressions—such as "the people that resemble the ass" (Ket.^ You might confirm the possibility of such meditative states being possible using science, but to prove it beyond a doubt to all people?
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 ^ There is no reason why 6 billion people on this planet allow such moral atrocities to happen."
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 ^ I’m not sure, however, that such people really have developed this virtue and really are able to experience something like “sympathy” after all.
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 111a)—and halakic injunctions found in the Talmud against the heathen (Gentile or 'Akkum; see Jubilees, Book of). The latter is always under grave suspicion (see 'Ab. Zarah ii. 1; Yeb. .98a), yet, no sooner does he solemnly discard idolatry than his association is invited and he has a claim on protection (Giṭ.^ In this you are stating that anyone who has a different opinion or disagrees with anything Sam says or does is wrong and you want no association with people like that.
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 ^ No Peter you have no absolutes, you subjectively deciding that god is absolute does not make so, and the proof of your claim, the bible.
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 ^ You demand other religions to coincide with evidence and you do not demand it from your own--or you claim your religion has evidence but it has no more evidence than anyone else.
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 45a).

Its Attitude Toward Proselytism.

On the contrary, Judaism waits for "the righteous nation that keeps the faith" (Isa. xxvi. .2), and opens wide "its gates that the righteous from among the heathen world may enter" (Ps.^ For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
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 cxviii. 20; Sifra, Aḥare Mot, xiii.), calling the .Gentiles that serve God in righteousness "priests of the Lord" ("Otiot de-R. Akiba," letter "Zayin").^ You're right, Timmy is definitely putting Descartes before de Horace in his supposition that there is no God.
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 ^ Mark 16:19 So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.
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 ^ "But when this Priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, He sat down at the right hand of God.
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 .It declares that the Holy Spirit may rest upon the righteous heathen as well as upon the Jew (Tanna debe Eliyahu R. ix.^ "Whether the Jews were waiting for a virgin to be with child or not, that is what Matthew, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit reveals the text to be saying."
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 ^ Well, we are back to definitions and you may be right.
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 ^ May you be filled with the joy and peace Jesus promised and may the gift of the Holy Spirit be renewed everyday.
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 ). It pays due homage to the wise among the heathen (Ber. 58a; Soṭah 35b; Bek. 8b; Gen. R. lxv.). .It recognizes the existence of prophets among the heathen (B. B. 15b: "Fifteen prophets God sent to the heathen world up to the time of Moses: Balaam and his father, Job and his four friends," etc.; comp.^ There again, up until the time that he chose to disobey God he was in perfect health, without sin, without death, without moral shortcoming, not alienated from God.
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 ^ And I don't need any "authority" (someone else's approval or your God) to make this conclusion; I am not discounting your evidence because up to this point in time there has simply been no evidence to discount.
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 ^ YOU: "So your answer is that God is purposely blocking the ability of over 99% of the world's population to even be aware of his existence?
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 Lev. R. i. 12, ii. 8; Tanna debe Eliyahu R. xxvi.; ib. Zuṭa xi., etc.). .The assertion made by Max Müller, Kuenen, and others, that Judaism is not a missionary religion, rests on insufficient knowledge.^ If I am wrong then billions of others who profess no religion, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, primitive religions, Wicca, and on and on and on are all destined to burn in hell.
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 ^ "If I am wrong then billions of others who profess no religion, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, primitive religions, Wicca, and on and on and on are all destined to burn in hell.
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 .There existed an extensive proselyte propaganda literature, especially in Alexandria (see Didache; Propaganda); and, according to the Midrash, "the heathen world is saved by the merit of the one proselyte who is annually won" (Gen.^ There is only One who does.
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 ^ There is only One who does."
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 ^ And we know that the definition of an atheist is "one who believes that God does not exist."
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 R. xxviii.; comp. Matt. xxiii. 15; Jellinek, "B. H." vi., Introduction, xlvi.). Abraham and Sarah are represented as devoting their lives to making proselytes (Gen. R. xxxix.); and as the .Psalmist accords to the proselytes—"those that fear God"—a special place (Ps.^ "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purposes."
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 ^ "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose."
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 ^ God created the laws that exist, including physical laws and place the penalty of death on those who break His moral laws.
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 cxv. 11), so does the daily prayer of the Jew in the "Shemoneh 'Esreh" contain a special blessing for the proselytes ("Gere ha-Ẓedeḳ"). Only in later centuries, when the Church interfered through apostates and by edicts, was the proselyte declared to be a plague instead of a desired accession to the house of Israel (Isa. xiv. 1); the ancient Halakah endeavored to encourage the heathen to come under the wings of the Shekinah (Yeb. 47a, b; Mas. Gerim; Lev. R. ii.). .In order to facilitate the admission of Gentiles, Judaism created two classes: (1) "proselytes of righteousness," who had to bring the "sacrifices of righteousness" while submitting to the Abrahamic rite in order to become full members of the house of Israel; and (2) "proselytes of the gate" ("gere toshab"), who accepted only the seven Noachian laws (ten and thirty are also mentioned) of humanity.^ Since he is a Jew there is no new covenant, therefore he is bound by two things, that god is only for the Jews and the Jews are under the laws of the OT." .
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 ^ His sacrifice was of infinite worth in that it was the only one that could merit the righteousness, the justice, and appease the wrath, the judgment of an angry God who said that the soul that sins shall surely die.
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 ^ But then some people lose their mind and say, "not only does this creator entity certainly exist, but we know who he is and we know very specific things about him.
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 .Occasionally the necessity of undergoing circumcision is made a matter of controversy also in the case of the full proselyte (see Circumcision).^ GAD: “You see thinking, life, love etc as a separate substances, essences or forces then the matter they are made from, which is a completely unfounded view i.e.
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 ^ You see thinking, life, love etc as a separate substances, essences or forces then the matter they are made from, which is a completely unfounded view i.e.
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 But proselytism as a system of obtaining large numbers is deprecated by Judaism.
However, the Messianic age is regarded as the one when "the fulness of the heathen world" will join Judaism (Isa. xiv. 1; Zech. viii. 23; 'Ab. Zarah 3a). .Especially characteristic of the cosmopolitan spirit of Judaism is the fact that the seventy bullocks brought as sacrifice during the Sukkot festival at the Temple were taken to be peace-offerings on behalf of the supposed seventy nations representing the heathen world (Suk.^ In the Old Testament times an animal sacrifice was used to represent the person and nation guilty before God, but it was inadequate for the very reasons stated above.
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 55b), a view shared by Philo ("De Monarchia," ii. 6; idem, "De Septenario," p. 26; see Treitel in "Monatsschrift," 1903, pp. 493-495). .Throughout the entire ethical literature of the Jews, from Tanna debe Eliyahu R. down to the various Ethical Wills of the Rabbis, there is voiced regarding the non-Jewish world a broadly human spirit which stands in strange contrast to the narrowness with which Judaism is viewed by Christian writers, even those of high rank (see Zunz, "Z. G." pp.^ And then, even among Christians there is so much dispute.
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 ^ Amoung the names you gave, only humanism gives a clearly stated world view, a set of guiding principals.
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 ^ I don't see life coming from non-life anywhere in this world.
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 122-157). .The same cosmopolitan attitude was taken by Judaism whenever its representativeswere called upon to act as intermediaries between Moslem and Christian; and the parable of the three rings, put by Lessing into the mouth of Nathan der Weise, was actually of Jewish origin (see Wünsche in "Lessing-Mendelssohn Gedenkbuch," 1879, pp.^ Again, I see you constantly putting words into my posts that I have not written.
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 ^ Here are some more traits that, in my opinion, put people into this miniscule demographic I have called the Scarlet A's.
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 ^ The problem I have with your attitude toward mysticism, and let me be more specific, Buddhism, is that you dont share the same critical attitude toward it that you hold toward Christianity or Islam.
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 329 et seq.).

IV. Judaism as Law:

Owing to the Paulinian antithesis of law and faith or love (see Löwy, "Die Paulinische Lehre von Gesetz," in "Monatsschrift," 1903, pp. 332 et seq., 417 et seq.), the Torah, the basis and center of Judaism since Ezra, has been persistently placed in a false light by non-Jewish writers, undue stress being laid upon "the burden of the Law." .In reality, the word "Torah" signifies both "law" and "doctrine"; and Judaism stands for both while antagonizing Paul's conception of faith as a blind dogmatic belief which fetters the mind.^ Not blind faith through willful belief.
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 ^ In other words, according to Vedic philosophy, every physical reality has a psychological aspect, and both the psychological and physical realms have an underlying reality that is the source of both other realms–¬–spiritual reality.
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 ^ When Harris talks of the impracticality of the word 'atheism' it sounds similar to the concept of not having an adequate word to describe the reality of God."
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 It prefers the bondage of the Law to the bondage of the spirit. .It looks upon the divine commandments as a source of spiritual joy ("simḥah shel miẓwah") and as a token of God's special protection (Ber.^ That is based on God's revelation regardless of how you chose to look upon it.
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 31a), for which it enjoins the Jew to offer Benedictions and to display zeal and enthusiastic love (Ab. v. 20). ."God has given the children of Israel so many commandments in order to increase their merit [Mak.^ YOU: "God has given no proofs-- regardless of how many times you have posted on this forum."
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 ^ God has given many checks and balances along the way.
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 ^ You can tell me as many times as you want, but you have given me no evidence that God exists and that morality came from him.
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 iii. 16] or to purify them" (Tan., Shemini, ed. Buber, p. 12). .Every morning after having taken upon himself the yoke of God's kingdom, the Israelite has to take upon himself the yoke of the divine commandments also (Ber.^ Every name in the bible has a religious meaning, trying to claim that Immanuel was to be taken as literally as "god is with us" is just silly.
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 ^ God has taken the punishment and the wrath and justice that should have been ours for our wrongful actions and motives, and laid it upon Jesus.
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 ^ Sin is a heavy load to bear, but His Son has freed me from my load by taking it upon Himself, by paying my penalty, by purchasing my life and putting on my account His righteousness!
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 ii. .2); and there is no greater joy for the true Israelite than to be "burdened with commandments" (Ber.^ The argument that there is no evidence for it is true.
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 ^ Yes, there is more than one version of the 10 commandments.
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 ^ If the true reality is emptiness, then lounging beside a pool in the sun is truly no better than being in a concentration camp."
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 17a). ."Even the commonest of Jews are full of merit on account of the many commandments they fulfil" (ib. 57a.^ "Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us, just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word."
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 ^ So although atheists may act in many ways more morally than a Christian or adherent of some religion, they have no means of accounting for that morality.
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 ^ For the rest, God's wrath remains on them and they will account for their own moral imperfections by their own merit, on their own account, rather than on the account of Christ.
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 )
.The Law was accordingly a privilege which was granted to Israel because of God's special favor.^ I still favor God's law because I know it is just.
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 ^ LJ said: "Your argument is that the government is squashing your rights as a Christian because it does not pass laws that “honor” and “obey” your god."
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 ^ Your mind is set on your fleshly pursuits (Ephesians 2:1-3; Romans 8:7) You cannot obey God because your mind is set on your natural sinful nature and is hostile to God's law.
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 .Instead of blind faith, Judaism required good works for the protection of man against the spirit of sin (ib. 32b).^ "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith - and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God - not by works, so that no man can boast."
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 ^ Sin has blinded the minds of man so that God has to perform a rescue operation for anyone to see the light.
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 ^ The mind of the sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace; the sinful mind is hostile to God.
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 The Law was to impress the life of the Jew with the holiness of duty. It spiritualized the whole of life. It trained the Jewish people to exercise self-control and moderation, and it sanctified the home. It rendered the commonest functions of life holy by prescribing for them special commandments. In this sense were the 613 commandments regarded by Judaism.

Purpose of the Law.

.Some of these are understood to be divine marks of distinction to separate Israel from the other nations—statutes ("ḥukkot") which are designated as unreasonable by the heathen world, such as laws concerning diet, dress, and the like (Sifra, Aḥare Mot, xiii.^ As I said I debated and researched the Christadelphian position in depth and found it compelling on some issues, such as the divinity of Jesus.
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 ^ Physical laws must be more like cartoons where people or the Holy can exterminate, change, and manipulate the world around them like magic."
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 ^ A celestial body such as a planet: the possibility of life on other worlds.
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 ). Others are called "'eduyot" (testimony), in view of their having been given to make Israel testify to God's miraculous guidance, such as the festive seasons of the year; while still others are "signs" ("ot"), being tokens of the covenant between God and Israel, such as circumcision, the Sabbath (Gen. xvii. 11; Ex. xxxi. 13), the Passover (Ex. xii. 13, xiii. 9), and, according to the rabbinical interpretation, the tefillin (Deut. vi. 8, xi. 18).
.Of sacraments, in the sense of mysterious rites by which a person is brought into a lifelong bodily relationship to God, Judaism has none.^ Yes, Adam and Eve brought the knowledge of evil into this world when they became disobedient to what God said.
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 ^ Old enough to be my grandfather, he filled the role of a father figure for me (God as Father made much more sense to me as a result of that relationship); he was interested not only in my spiritual journey but also my personal life and happiness.
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 ^ The awareness of God as a mysterious personal entity behind the veil of worldly appearances, like the man behind the shower curtain in Psycho, has natural roots that anthropologists can explain.
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 The Sabbath and circumcision have been erroneously called thus by Frankel (in his "Zeitschrift," 1844, p. .67): they are institutions of Judaism of an essential and, according to the generally accepted opinion, vital character; but they do not give any Jew the character of an adherent of the faith (see Ceremony; Commandments).^ Please reflect on Commandments 3- 10 and see if they have any positive social implications.
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 ^ Giving this absence of subscription a title rather generously accords status to that which we reject.
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 ^ Soja: “Please reflect on Commandments 3-10 and see if they have any positive social implications.” .
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 .At the same time the Sabbath and the festival seasons, with the ceremonies connected with them, have at all times been the most significant expressions of Jewish sentiment, and must be regarded as the most important factors of religious life both in the Synagogue and in the home (see Ab, Ninth of; Atonement, Day of; Ḥanukkah; New-Year; Passover; Purim; Sabbath; Shabuot; and Sukkot).^ We better have been thinking about this for a long long time when this day (coming sooner than we all think) arrives.
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 ^ The year is 2007, and we have all taken time out of our busy lives, and many of us have traveled considerable distance, so that we can strategize about how best to live in a world in which most people believe in an imaginary God.
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 ^ Since Christmas marks the birth of light (Jesus) at the darkest time of the year, symbolically, here's wishing you all a Merry Christmas (or a Merry Festive Season or Holiday or Whatever) and a Happy New Year 2008!
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While the immutability of the Torah, that is, the law of Moses, both the written and the oral Law, is declared by Maimonides to be one of the cardinal doctrines of Judaism, there are views expressed in the Talmud that the commandments will be abrogated in the world to come (Nid. 61b). .It is especially the dietary laws that will, it is said, be no longer in force in the Messianic time (Midr.^ What I said was I'm no longer going to get into any long protracted discussions with you, because they tend to go no where.
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 ^ Gad said: "No need to waste any time responding (even though you will)," .
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 ^ Gad said, "What I said was I'm no longer going to get into any long protracted discussions with you, because they tend to go no where.
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 Teh. on Ps. cxlvi. 4).

Orthodox and Reform Judaism.

.On the question whether the laws concerning sacrifice and Levitical purity have ceased to be integral parts of Judaism, Reform and Orthodox Judaism are at issue (on this and other points of difference between the two extreme parties of Judaism see Reform Judaism).^ The differences between the two are enormous as to their validity.
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 ^ Big difference between the two.
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 ^ "Well, I think you are asking two different questions here.
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 Between the two stands the so-called "Breslau school," with Zacharias Frankel as head, whose watchword was "Positive Historical Judaism," and whose principle was "Reform tempered with Conservatism." .While no longer adhering to the Mosaic origin of the Pentateuch (see Grätz in "Gesch."^ Today, we can morally change our behavior towards people because we no longer see them as possessed by the Devil, or as witches or savages from a different species altogether.
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 ^ The ski resort is no longer in sight, and all we can see is a sea of snow covered mountain tops for hundreds of miles in every direction.
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 ^ We are no longer trying to possess them, because we see that there is no permanent aspect of ourselves that is capable of possessing them, and that they are not solid, unchanging entities capable of being possessed."
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 ii. 299-318, and Schechter in "J. Q. R." iii. 760-761) and the divine character of tradition (see Frankel, "Darke ha-Mishnah"), it assigns the power and authority for reforms in Judaism only to the Jewish community as a whole, or to what Schechter calls "catholic Israel." The latter author desires "a strong authority," one which, "drawing inspiration from the past, understands also how to reconcile us [the Jews] with the present and to prepare us [them] for the future" ("J. Q. R." iv. 470). Grätz goes so far as to reduce Judaism to two fundamental principles: (1) "the religious element, which is mere negative monotheism in the widest acceptation of the term," and (2) the ethical, which offers the ideal for the moral life: "Be ye holy even as I am holy"; at the same time declaring that "prophets and Talmudists did not regard sacrifice or ritual as the fundamental and determining thing in Judaism" (Grätz, i. 9). This leads to a final statement of the principles and forces of Judaism.

V. Historic Principles and Forces of Judaism:

The Shema', "the proclamation of God's unity, requires an undivided Israel" (Mek., Yitro, Baḥodesh, i.). "One God, One Israel, and One Temple" is the principle twice stated in Josephus ("Ant." iv. 8, § 5; "Contra Ap." ii. .28); "One God, One Israel, and One Torah" is the principle upon which Orthodox Judaism rests.^ You will notice in Deuteronomy 28 that God lays down some stipulations for Israel to follow, as to whether they would receive blessings or curses.
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 ^ It would not be a theocracy based on truth long if it was not governed by the principles of the one and only true God."
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 ^ It would not be a theocracy based on truth long if it was not governed by the principles of the one and only true God.
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 "It was an evil day for Israel when the controversies between the schools of Shammai and Hillel began, and the one Torah appearedto have become two Torot" (Sanh. 88b; where the plural "Torot" occurs, it refers to the written and oral law; Yoma 28b, with reference to Gen. xxvi. 5; comp. Shab. 31a). .This Torah, both written and oral, was known to and practised in all its details by the Patriarchs (Yoma 28b; Gen.^ So the moral law is written on the heart of every man, whether he suppresses that law or not, and since the Fall he has known both what good and evil is.
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 R. lxiv.; comp. Jubilees, Book of, and "Attah Eḥad" in the liturgy). ."Whosoever denies that the whole Law, written as well as oral, was given by God to Moses on Sinai is a heretic" (Sanh.^ Well that is the same "freewill" choice god has given you, please his every desire or be tortured in hell forever!
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 ^ The Enuma elish and other folk lore was written after the Genesis accounts which were handed down from generation to generation and became Scripture when God told Moses to write them down."
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 ^ Denying God's existence, knowing full well that he does indeed exist, will not save us from hell.
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 99a; Sifra, Behar, i. 1).

Chain of Tradition.

The trustworthiness of the divine behest until the final codification of the Law, from this point of view, rests upon the continuous chain of tradition from Moses down to the men of the Great Synagogue (Ab. i. 1), and afterward upon the successive ordination of the Rabbis by the elders with the laying on of hands (probably originally under the influence of the Holy Spirit; see Semikah). .Accordingly the stability and the immutability of the Law remained from the Orthodox standpoint one of the cardinal principles of Judaism (see M. Friedländer, "The Jewish Religion," 1891; Samson Raphael Hirsch, "Horeb," 1837).^ I can not see any necessary relation between the "I" in "I think, therefore I am" and the "I" in your Soul Theory or the Soul Theory of religion, which seem to me to be one and the same with different naming conventions.
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 ^ "Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves his fellowman has fulfilled the law.
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Independent research, however, discerns evolution and progress to have been at work in the various Mosaic legislations (Ex. xx. 22-xxiii. 19; Deut. xii.-xxi. 13; and Leviticus together with Num. xv., xviii.-xix. 22), in the prophetic and priestly as well as in the soferic activities, and it necessarily sees in revelation and inspiration as well as in tradition a spiritual force working from within rather than a heavenly communication coming from without. .From this point of view, ethical monotheism presents itself as the product not of the Semitic race, which may at best have created predisposition for prophetic inspiration and for a conception of the Deity as a personality with certain moral relations to man, but solely of the Jewish genius, whose purer and tenderer conception of life demanded a pure and holy God in sharp contrast to the cruel and lascivious gods of the other Semitic races (see M. Joël, "Religiös-Philosophische Zeitfragen," 1876, pp.^ It may have been created at some point by some thing.
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 ^ God is pure and holy.
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 ^ All other religions are man's attempt to create God in his image.
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 82-83).

The Prophetic Spirit.

.It was the prophetic spirit of the Jewish nation embodied in Abraham (not the Midianite, as Budde thinks, nor some Babylonian tribe, as the Assyriologists would have it) which transformed Yhwh, an original tribal deity localized on Sinai and connected with the celestial phenomena of nature, into the God of holiness, "a power not ourselves that maketh for righteousness," the moral governor of the world.^ We think for ourselves, God does not think for us.
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 ^ Some like to call nature god.
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 ^ God in true righteousness and holiness.
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 .Yet this spirit works throughout the Biblical time only in and through a few individuals in each age; again and again the people lapse into idolatry from lack of power to soar to the heights of prophetic vision.^ That is not the only time people get hurt.
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 ^ They want to influence and power their belief into the forefront of thinking and yet are unwilling to provide an answer as to why it is true other than personal preference.
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 ^ Scientist work with "raw" all the time and have to turn that "raw" into something comprehensible so that humans can understand what it is.
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 .Only in the small Judean kingdom with the help of the Deuteronomic Book of the Law the beginning is made, and finally through Ezra the foundation is laid for the realization of the plan of "a kingdom of priests and a holy nation."^ There is only one way that man can be right with God and that is through His Son, not through Hindu philosophy or any man-made philosophy of this world.
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 ^ Any "design" would only make sense if the eyes were made from available materials through natural selection.
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 ^ And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all."
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.But while thus the people were won, and the former propensity to idolatry, the "yeẓer ha-ra'," was banished forever by the power of the men of the Great Synagogue (Yoma 69b), the light of prophetic universalism became dim.^ "As he thus saw things, only by invoking his own magic powers could other men be brought into the transcendental company.
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 ^ Everything in this universe has been made by God] In Him was life, and that life was the light of men.
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 ^ As he thus saw things, only by invoking his own magic powers could other men be brought into the transcendental company.
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 .Still it found its utterance in the Synagogue with its liturgy, in the Psalms, in the Books of Jonah and Job, in the Books of Wisdom, and most singularly in the hafṭarah read on Sabbath and holy days often to voice the prophetic view concerning sacrifice and ritual in direct antagonism to the Mosaic precepts.^ Have you read the book of the prophets, the Psalms etc?
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 ^ "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy .
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 ^ So Sam's book was saying something new, at the very least, to most people who read it.
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 Here, too, "the Holy Spirit" was at work (see Inspiration; Synagogue). .It created Pharisaism in opposition to Sadducean insistence upon the letter of the Law; and the day when the injunction "an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth" was abrogated, and the rationalistic interpretation of the Scribes was substituted therefor, was celebrated as a triumph of reason (Megillat Ta'an.^ Therefore the word for virgin would have created confusion on which way this sign was to be interpreted.
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 ^ Therefore, upon Stein's ultimate commitment, the laws of logic were impossible and non-existent and, therefore, by showing up, Stein had lost the debate!"
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 iv. 1). While the legalists beheld God's majesty confined to "the four ells of the Halakah" (Ber. 8a), the Haggadah unfolded the spirit of freedom and progress; and when mysticism in the East threatened to benumb the spirit, philosophy under Arabian influence succeeded in enlarging the mental horizon of Judaism anew.
.Thus Judaism presents two streams or currents of thought ever running parallel to each other: the one conservative, the other progressive and liberal; the one accentuating the national and ritualistic, the other the cosmopolitan and spiritual, elements; mysticism here and rationalism there, these together forming the centripetal and centrifugal forces of Judaism to keep it in continuous progress upon its God-appointed track.^ It can function because there is continuity with regard to the stream of awareness/form.
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 ^ The other couple that comes to mind is an Aussie one: The man was eighty two years old and his wife eighty years old when I met them.
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 ^ If he chooses to break those laws, just like in any other society, there are consequences (And without Christ in the long run, eternal ones)."
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.Judaism, parent of both Christianity and Islam, holds forth the pledge and promise of the unity of the two ("Yad," Melakim, xi.^ (Christianity, Judaism, Islam) Religion is a problem in our society.
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 ^ The problem I have with your attitude toward mysticism, and let me be more specific, Buddhism, is that you dont share the same critical attitude toward it that you hold toward Christianity or Islam.
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 ^ You claim that Sam doesn't share the same critical attitude towards Buddhism that he holds toward Christianity or Islam.
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 4; "Cuzari," iv. 23; see Jew. Encyc. iv. 56, s.v. Christianity), as it often stood as mediator between Church and Mosque during the Middle Ages (see Disputations and Judah ha-Levi). .In order to be able to "unite all mankind into one bond" (New-Year's liturgy and Gen.^ Why has it evolved one way for billions of years, since the beginning of time, and now we have something entirely new.
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 ^ All the philosophical debates on the reality or otherwise of free will fall in one way or another into more or less subtle confusion as to what exactly free will is supposed to be.
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 ^ I couldn't agree more with him on the problem with labels and throwing all religions into one basket.
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 R. lxxx viii.), it must form "one bond" (Lev. R. xxx.). .It must, to use Isaiah's words, constitute a tree ever pruned while "the holy seed is the substance thereof" (Isa.^ If you want to use the dictionary definition of the word "atheist", you must also use the dictionary definition of the word "god" in the definition of "atheist".
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 ^ In the case of Isaiah 53, the language would suggest the event had already happened by the use of words like "was" or the use of the suffix "ed."
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 ^ And if anyone takes words away from this book of prophecy, God will take away from him his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book."
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 vi. 13); its watchword being: "Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts" (Zech. iv. 6).
For Karaitic Judaism see Karaites.
Bibliography: M. Friedländer, The Jewish Religion, London, 1891; Geiger, Das Judenthum und Seine Geschichte, Breslau, 1865; idem, Nachgelassene Schriften, i.-v.; M. Güdemann, Was 1st Judenthum? Vienna, 1902; Morris Joseph, Judaism as Creed and Life, London, 1903; Jost, Gesch. des .Judenthums und Seiner Sekten, Leipsic, 1857-59; Judaism at the World's Parliament of Religions, Cincinnati, 1894; Margolis, The Theological Aspect of Reform Judaism, in Year Book of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, 1903, pp.^ I still recommend Dennett's book - it is the only book I know of that discusses researching religion, the possible future of religion and alternatives for religion in a post religious world.
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 185-338; Claude Monteflore, Hibbert Lectures, London, 1892; idem, Liberal Judaism, ib. 1903; Felix Perles, Bousset's Religion des Judenthums im Neutestamentlichen Zeitalter, Kritisch Untersucht, Berlin, 1903; Schechter, Studies in Judaism, Philadelphia, 1896; Schreiner, Die Jüngsten Urtheile über das Judenthum, Berlin, 1902; Stein, Schrift des Lebens, Mannheim, 1872; Toy, Judaism and Christianity, Boston, 1890; Weber, Jüdische Theologie auf Grund des Talmud; special articles by Abrahams, Grätz, Claude Monteflore, Schechter, and Oswald J. Simon, in J. Q. R. i.-xvii.; Kohler, The Spiritual Forces of Judaism, Judaism and Reform, The Spirit of Judaism, in the Menorah Monthly, 1894, 1895, 1897; L. Löw, in Gesammelte Schriften, 1889, i.; Z. Frankel, in his Zeitschrift, 1844.
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