I love my country. I grew up in it. I walked its paths. I drove on its roads. I visited the many historical places of my people, located there. I am proud of its achievements. I love my people. I was born one of them. I contributed to their progress. We are an ancient nation […]

I have heard this line of thought several times — You talk with a religious Jew about the borders of the State of Israel, you raise all kinds of considerations: The need for a Jewish majority, the need for secured borders, the much-needed support of the various countries of the world, the Palestinians, the economy […]

For a large part of the Jewish believers – “God” has long since become a mere excuse to believe in the “Rabbi” and worship him. In fact, this is, in a sense, the definition of a “cult” or a “sect”, but if you ask the religious followers of one rabbi or another, they will of […]

Many letters and articles written by religious Orthodox Jewish people – start with a tiny notation made of 2 or 3 letters. Sometimes you can hardly notice it, as if it is being intentionally hidden. If you do notice it, and you know what it stands for, you know it says something like “with the […]

Many religious people recognize the fact that the human mind is very “limited”. In fact, they even promote this fact, to “sort of” demonstrate how we cannot fully understand “God” and his processes of reasoning. At the same time, their limited minds seem to know very well that there IS such a “God”, and they […]

There’s something hard to explain with Islam… Don’t extreme Muslims believe in the power of God? Why then they must conduct his battles for him? Let’s see now: In Sweden, threats to burn the Quran by a far-right group triggered several nights of violence. In Israel, threats to sacrifice a young goat on the Temple […]

We used to be few. We, humans, that is. The Biblical story talks about Adam and Eve, but even real science agrees that at certain times the Homo Sapiens population was tiny. And then we became many. Very many. It is a nasty characteristic of evolution that makes the successful ones numerous, and eventually – […]

Religious thinking must have a solution for any problem, especially one that puts the religious thinking itself in risk. Hence, when many millions of Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, including some million innocent children – there must have been a good religious reason for this. Thus the great minds of religious thinking came up […]

This topic came up during a correspondence of mine with a creationist. I find it quite interesting, so I bring it here as is. Steve: The big bang is a hypothesis. It cannot be directly tested. God’s creation cannot be tested either. Me: Scientifically speaking, the Big Bang is an established scientific theory. God is […]

Here is a common situation: You are arguing with a creationist about the origin of all the processes in the universe being based on the laws of nature, and then they come up with the strange question: “And who created the laws of nature?” Who told physics to act in certain ways? The real answer […]