It is true that sometimes in judging the moral quality of a person one takes account only of his action and the principle of his action. A person who did good deeds all of his life and who acted on moral principles would normally be considered a good person. But still we would consider such [&hellip[...]
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Sunday Reveletion: The Resurrection … by Andrew Sullivan
Click Andrew’s image for a very beautiful statement on the Resurrection.[...]
January 6th, 2013 - 3:19 am § in Religion
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Who was “Jesus?”
A friend recently challenged me to discuss the concept of Jesus as a Messiah. Of course, as a Jew and the son of a liberator of Buchenwald, and as someone acutely aware of the millions of people tortured and slaughtered in the name of Jesus. I have trouble taking this on. In unprejudiced manner[...]
December 4th, 2012 - 12:19 pm § in Religion
Davey JONES: How Syrian beer shocked the Repub!
We left Jebal Ali last night, (3DEC) leaving the dock at 8PM and taking departure around three AM. It turns out the refer containers we loaded in Egypt were full of produce bound for here. While in port I re-built the main engine air start valve changed the main engine turbo-charger filters and pump[...]
Ryanomics: Is Ryan a cousin of Ahmadinejad?
Did you watch the debate? Yesterday’s performance reminded me of this clip: from Piers Morgan’s interview with Ahmadinejad: “You are a father of three children,” Morgan said, as part of a “lively” debate on homosexuality. “You have two sons and a daughter. W[...]
The Chosen People
How the Jews got to be so speshul![...]
Asking Forgiveness Without Conditions is The Tradition at Yom Kippur
Photo: AP JEWS DO BAD THINGS TOO: Last year Israelis and Palestinians protested together after a firebomb was thrown at a synagogue followed by two dozen Muslim and Christian graves being vandalized by graffiti in the mixed Arab Jewish neighborhood of Jaffa, Israel, October 8, 2011, Yom Kippur, [...]
August 26th, 2012 - 4:24 am § in Religion
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Wrong Asteroid blamed for extinction of dinosaurs
NASA reported last Monday: “As a result of the WISE science team’s investigation, the demise of the dinosaurs remains in the cold case files,” Lindley Johnson, program executive for the Near Earth Object (NEO) Observation Program at NASA. From NASA: According to that theory, [...]
BREAKING NEWS
Spat with Iraq bares Turk plunge into regional power game ANKARA – A bitter rift with Iraq has exposed Turkey’s role in a wider Middle East power struggle, with Ankara acting to protect its stability and prosperity from an Iranian-Iraqi “Shi’ite axis” it fears in the wa[...]
Antisemitism hits Harvard
Jewish Harvard Students Receive Mock Eviction Notices Jewish students at Harvard University receive mock eviction notices in light of “Israel Apartheid Week.” Is this antisemitism? Imagine all Asian students getting this notice next time a Tibetan is immolated. Or imagine all Catholic Studen[...]