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Quite a Tale

Magda raised a good point, as she does with rather disconcerting regularity. The Roman Catholic Church HAS had a violent history. In fact, I suspect that its history has been even MORE violent than Islam’s history. However, I don’t believe that this actually points to the error of fundamentalism. I just think that it points to the error [...]

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There were some interesting comments posted on my last article, so it’s time to talk about the economics of Terrorism - Economics 101, the terrorist version. (Thanks everyone for stepping up to comment!) By the way, I’m going to keep this short, ‘cuz it’s Saturday, and I have a miserable cold. oy. Where was I… oh, yes… We actually [...]

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Big Vacuum, part 2

There’s something in all of us that needs God. Even Richard Dawkins says so, but in a completely different way. The point is that we have a built-in need to believe in a power greater than ourselves. And, if you take that higher power out of someone’s life, they will go searching for another one. That’s what’s happening [...]

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A Prophet-ed War

There is, in the Tanach (Old Testament) in Yehezkel (Ezekiel) a reference to a great army that comes down and tries to destroy Israel. And, Yehezkel makes a list of everyone in that army: Gog, Persia, Ethiopia, Libya, Gomer, and Togarmah. (Don’t worry, I’m not going to get all religious on you, or at least not more than [...]

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I’m working my way through an embarrassingly large collection of unwatched DVDs - a stack about chest high*, if you must really know. (They’re just so cheap over here, and when I get back to Israel…) Anyway, there I sat, watching an Israeli film, when there was reference to a suicide bombing in Israel. One of [...]

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