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A place to read and write about God(s), religion(s) and similar obscure entities. |
Religious preachers, inspired by religious authorities, often tend to describe certain (if not all) religious claims as being symmetric to opposing scientific or other claims. You say evolution created humans? We say God did. Why should your so-called theory be better than mine? You say religion coerces its rules on secular people? We say secularism […]
The original article in Hebrew appeared here Among religious preachers, especially Orthodox Jewish ones, there are many references to the amusing discussion on the alleged vast knowledge of our holy ancestors about the exact length of the moon cycle, also known as the synodic month, which is the basis for the Jewish calendar as well […]
Here is a short and very partial list, just to get an idea of some of the more peculiar religious Jewish verdicts mentioned in the Israeli media during the last few years. All have good religious explanations. Note that some of them obviously contradict others: It’s not allowed to pick your nose on the Sabbath. […]
Some two millenniums ago, Jewish priests were not allowed to be near dead people or even cemeteries. This ancient law evolved into religiously forbidding people carrying the last name of, say, ‘Cohen’ (Hebrew for ‘Priest’) from entering cemeteries. But what is the extent of a cemetery? It appears that the Jewish god also regards the […]
“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.” – Vincent van Gogh Picking your nose in public is certainly not a nice thing to do. Picking your nose in private is probably okay… unless it’s Saturday and you’re one of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef’s followers. The interesting verdict […]
Fooling around with words and meanings appears to be very common, especially in situations such as commercial marketing or politics (hope you’ve seen ‘Yes, Minister’). Religions, however, pretend to be more pure and moral, so they deserve some special treatment here. This is what the Jewish missionary organization named ‘Values’ (‘Arachim’, in Hebrew) teaches its […]
“The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery How long has it been since you last practiced your math? Let’s put it to a test with two simple riddles. We’ll start with this one: Suppose you randomly pick an integer (that is, whole) […]
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