Tag: Jewish History
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Do Religious People Believe “IN” God Or That They ARE “God”? I Suspect It’s Mostly The Latter…
Monotheism is dangerous — far more dangerous than polytheism — and far, FAR more dangerous than atheism. Let’s be clear: there have been atheistic despots (Pol Pot comes to mind). But, atheistic as they may have been, it was never their atheism driving their heinous cruelty because atheism doesn’t work like theism does inside our…
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I Grew Up In The Shadow Of The Holocaust
It’s National Holocaust Remembrance Day. According to Donald Trump, “Jews” are a “nationality”. That’s not the first time a country’s leader has started down that road… Historically, it never ends well for Jews. I was born in 1959, 14 years after the Nazi concentration camps were liberated. In my brain, those camps never went away.…
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I Grew Up In The Shadow Of The Holocaust
According to Donald Trump, “Jews” are a “nationality”. That’s not the first time a country’s leader has started down that road… I was born in 1959, 14 years after the Nazi concentration camps were liberated. In my brain, those camps never went away. I grew up in the 1960’s & 1970’s in a Jewish suburb…
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The WORST Thing About Anti-Semitism Is How IRRATIONAL It Is…
A Thought Experiment: You walk into a room. Another person enters and punches you – hard. You ask — “What was that for?” And the other person responds “Because you killed my god”. Being a RATIONAL person who doesn’t want to get punched again — and who doesn’t want to resort to violence yourself —…