“Ghosts” and “souls” haven’t avoided our human characteristic described above. Here also, the believer creates in his or her mind a complete virtual picture, bearing its own rules. This is done by collecting pieces of alleged data from others. The picture includes various worlds of life after death, reward and punishment, heaven and hell, [...]

“The difference between physics and metaphysics is that the metaphysicist has no laboratory.” – Robert W. Wood
On a scale of 1 to 10 – how high do you rank the possibility that vampires are real?
If you answered anything higher than 1, it means you still give the old vampire myth a chance. Rationally, of-course, there’s [...]

(iii) The sages knew it all – surprising ancient knowledge is yet another ruse in the game. If our ancestors knew so much without modern scientific tools, then it must be God himself who took care to grant them this knowledge.
This method is most popular among Jewish players of the game, some of whom have [...]

“Fools never die, they are merely replaced by others.” – Unknown
In February 1997, the Israeli Air Force suffered its worst disaster ever. Two transport helicopters carrying troops collided in mid-air over the village of She’ar Yashuv in northern Galilee, resulting in the death of 73 soldiers. The small country mourned, and a commission of inquiry [...]

Speaking of important Israeli officials: The late Prime Minister Itzhak Rabin was assassinated in 1995. About a month before, a religious man named Avigdor Eskin made the news, when performing an ancient Jewish ritual named ‘Pulsa de-Nura’ (“lash of fire” in old Aramaic) against Mr. Rabin. The ancient curse supposedly worked, in a way that [...]

“All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
People who travel the old Jewish quarter of Prague (the capital of the Czech Republic) may be surprised to see shops with many little souvenirs in the shape of a strange and chubby human-like creature. [...]

We all know the Biblical story of Noah and the great flood. As children, we learned about it in school. It’s very likely that since then we’ve encountered several religious preachers, who bothered to explain some archeological studies, which allegedly revealed the traces of that secret flood deep underground all over the world.
The real studies [...]

Those who are familiar with such human characteristics can take advantage of our irrational way of thinking. They can manipulatively assign varying significance to things that deserve a much simpler interpretation, if analyzed using simple statistical tools and rational thinking. Consider the following experiment: 128 people are watching a preacher tossing a coin, instructing them [...]

“One Man’s Ceiling Is Another Man’s Floor.” – Paul Simon
Did Jesus really walk on water? While you may think it’s a simple yes or no statement, let’s suggest three different alternatives to answer this somewhat strange question:

God Almighty – what a question! With the help of the divine intervention, the miracle of Jesus walking on [...]