Decided to blog this as a text so it’s easier to reblog. But this is in response to a message about the Kuzari argument, probably the most popular argument for god, the torah, and judaism used by orthodox jews. I don’t mean to sound bitter or sarcastic, so please don’t take this the wrong way, […]
Judiasm
God as the Original Terrorist: How the Bible Condones Atrocious Acts of Terror – Valerie Tarico*
BELIEF There are quite a few prescriptions for terrorism in the Bible. Last fall, Dutch pranksters put a cover from a Quran over a Bible and then asked passersby to read aloud homophobic, violent or sexist passages that violate modern moral sensibilities. The texts shocked people who had never immersed themselves in the Iron Age […]
Whistling In The Wind – Terrible Parts Of The Bible: Part 5 – Racism
I would have thought the Bible of all books would be about love and peace for the whole world. I would never expected quotes from God or Jesus claiming only some ethnic groups were saved or that some were superior to others. But that is exactly what I found. First of all there is the […]
Bible Inconsistencies*
Exodus Did Not Happen*
Every history book and every time-line mentions the Exodus. The Exodus and Moses are mentioned in the Gospels by Jesus, the Quran, the Book of Mormon, and by Baha’u’llah. People just assume it is a fact. That assumption is based solely on the story told in the Torah, but what if it is wrong? […]
The Persistence of Myth – Noah Kennedy*
Recounting the story of a battle with American soldiers. While working on a chapter on Jerusalem during the British Mandate (1917-1948) I ran into one of the private micro-dramas I assume most writers run into and that I learned long ago nobody else is really interested in. But as I thought about it more, there seemed […]
Stealing Palestine: A study of historical and cultural theft – Roger Sheety
The cultural appropriation of books, music, art, cuisine and dress have been used by Zionists as a weapon against Palestinians Stealing and appropriating the culture and history of indigenous peoples is a typical characteristic of all modern colonial-settler states, but usually accomplished once the indigenous people in question has been eliminated, dispossessed, or otherwise seemingly […]
The goddamn Torah is bullshit – Abraham, the Jewish patriarch, probably never existed. Nor did Moses.*
By MICHAEL MASSING The whole Holey Buy-Bull is nothing more than a collection of plagiarized myths and fairy tales”. Abraham, the Jewish patriarch, probably never existed. Nor did Moses. The entire Exodus story as recounted in the Bible probably never occurred. The same is true of the tumbling of the walls of Jericho. And […]
AN APOSTATE TO JUDAISM – Staks Rosch
Last week, I went to the grocery store to do my weekly shopping, but when I returned home I realized that I missed out on getting five boxes of free matzah. That makes me a super bad Jew. It means that I forgot that Passover was coming up and that I missed out on free […]