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Animal Wisdom: The Voice of the Serpent
Our family watched Jaws together the other evening -- which, in case you're wondering, I regard as responsible parenting since our kids are basically too young to be genuinely scared by the film. The whole rest of the next day, two-year-old Saul was chattering about the "shark teeth." "Shark teeth g
posted 3:56:33pm Mar. 16, 2010 |
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Reading Wesley Smith: Why the Darwin Debate Matters
If the intelligent-design side in the evolution debate doesn't receive the support you might expect from people who should be allies, that may be because they haven't grasped why the whole thing matters so urgently. I got an email recently from a journalist whom I'd queried on the subject. "All told
posted 5:07:12pm Mar. 15, 2010 |
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The Mission of the Jews
Don't miss my essay over at First Things on the mission of the Jews to the world. This, I think, the key idea that the Jewish community needs to absorb at this very unusual cultural moment, for the time is so, so right. Non-Jews are waiting for us to fulfill the roll God gave us in the Torah. Please
posted 6:14:16pm Mar. 05, 2010 |
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Darwin at the Mountains of Madness: Evolution & the Occult
Of all the regrettable cultural forces that Darwinism helped unleash, perhaps the most surprising and seemingly unlikely is its role in sparking the creation of modern occultism. Charles Darwin himself could not have been less interested in the topic. But no attempt to assess the scope of his legacy
posted 2:04:11pm Mar. 04, 2010 |
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Why Women Will Never Be Orthodox Rabbis
I have sympathy for religious mavericks like Rabbi Avi Weiss of New York, who for ordaining a woman as a rabbi, or "rabba" as he calls her, is under fire from Orthodox rabbinic colleagues on the Rabbinical Council of America. To be Avi Weiss takes guts. Unfortunately for him, as the N
posted 6:10:06pm Feb. 28, 2010 |
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posted January 22, 2010 at 6:30 am
Totally hilarious-thanks for sharing!
posted January 22, 2010 at 12:18 pm
When I first heard the explaination as to why the flight was diverted, I was sort of dispirited. The event illustrated just how ignorant of religious traditions we are. Goodness, even Jesus wore teffilin.
Blessings,
posted January 23, 2010 at 3:08 pm
oh dear oh dear – olfactories! oh I’m’ dyin’, I’m rollin’ on the floor!
posted January 23, 2010 at 8:37 pm
I usually sacrifice a goat and then burn some bald eagle beaks before flying. Then, I pray to Horus. Next, I recite Druid prayers. I’ve found that wearing feathered and beaded headdresses keeps me safe. Lastly, I bless the aircraft by bathing it in dolphin blood because I don’t want the wings to melt off. I fly pretty frequently and I haven’t crashed yet!
I’m glad I’m not delusional and airport security doesn’t think my mythological religious faith is weird or irrational.
After all, there is no way I can accept that brilliant scientists and engineers work hard to improve our lives and keep us safe by investigating the physical properties of materials and fluids, testing conditions, and continuously analyzing data by approaching flight in a rational manner. That would just be silly.
We should all be aware of everyone’s religious mythology, this is why I am telling everyone about mine (which is the right one, of course). I can’t think of anything else we could be focused on: cure for cancer, ageing, adequate nutrition, world hunger, sustainable agriculture, energy, financial reform, global development, educational performance, etc, are rather trivial matters. Plus, religion solves all these problems, obviously.
posted January 24, 2010 at 4:11 am
“I can’t think of anything else we could be focused on: cure for cancer, ageing, adequate nutrition, world hunger, sustainable agriculture, energy, financial reform, global development, educational performance, etc, are rather trivial matters”
Which one of these are you tackling, Dan?
posted January 25, 2010 at 8:38 am
I have to say that although I also laughed when the Philly policeman said olfactories, it always does my heart good to hear someone “official” who is so clearly personally unfamiliar, explain/defend Judaism or a Jewish practice. From this event comes one more data point of familiarity and that makes us all one less data point apart.
Have a good day Dan.
posted January 31, 2010 at 3:23 pm
I am not concerned about men wearing phylacteries on airplanes. I am concerned about men wearing phylacteries on Wall Street, and in corporate boardrooms.
posted February 3, 2010 at 3:04 pm
Why is that?