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They don't have to be compatible because they're entire different things. It's comparing apples and orangutans. We don't know all the details about evolution through natural selection, but we know enough to be absolutely certain that it happened and continues to happen. It's a fact. Period...

It's not just the Abrahamic religions. Other religions, and secular philosophies such as Communism, have been just as bad. The important thing is to accept that your view isn't the only one, and be tolerant of others. And you can do that within an Abrahamic tradition.

I'm not a Christian, and I haven't spent much time in churches. But to my mind, the negative image of Christians comes from the fundamentalists, insisting that gays are evil and that everyone not like them (including other Christians) will go to Hell. It's the old problem that the loudest, most...

A friend of mine, a rabbi, once said that when the divine dictates to a mortal scribe, the mortal will make mistakes. Good people have been grappling with the many obviously immoral things G*d condones or even orders in the Bible. Many reinterpret these verses as metaphors. Others simply...

LittleBuddha said "Christ was crucified by the Jews." THE Jews, not some Jews. It's an important point, because the deicide myth has been a driving force of often violent Christian anti-Semitism for 2000 years.

1) Were you born into Judaism or did you convert? Sort of a combination of both. My parents were ethnically Jewish atheists. I became a religious Jew as an adult. But I didn't have to convert because I was born Jewish. 2) Is there a certain sect of Judaism you identify with? (ex. reform) I'm...

I couldn't agree more.

I've always suspected that the more the government enforces religion, the more sceptical people become of it.

I'm a Jew, by birth and by religion, and I find the equation Righteous=Jew deeply offensive. Look at the Jonah. That whole book is pretty much about non-Jews being more righteous than the Jewish title character. The people of Sodom react to strangers in their town by wanting to rape them...

There's certainly anti-Semitism in this country, and there's a whole lot more anti-black racism. Sometimes, they use anti-Israel and anti-Obama rhetoric as a cover. We have to separate legitimate political criticism from bigotry.

You're welcome.

I have no experience as either a child or a parent in an overly-strict, force-fed religious family. It sounds, as you said, ghastly. When I married my first wife, someone gave us a book called "How to be a Jew," which would more accurately have been called "How to be an Orthodox Jew in My...

Your father was a wise man. That's one of the reasons I prefer small congregations that meet in homes over large ones that meet in synagogues. Less lectures, more conversations.

Being Jewish was a very minor thing for my dad. He was married three times, and only the first one (my mother) was Jewish. My dad didn't deny being Jewish, but people could know him for a long time and not know it about him. If we had given him a Jewish funeral, he would of risen from the...

My father was born, raised, lived, and died an atheist. He saw no point to religion at all. For him, it seemed stupid. I should also mention the he was the the most moral and principled person whom I've ever personally known. I don't think he ever understood how two of his sons became...

I think some people just don't feel the need for it. My father didn't.

There are a lot of people in the US who want to define any criticism of the Israeli government as Anti-Semitism. To my mind, that's ridiculous.

What about Fox News' annual "War on Chirstmas?" Now, in reality, they're not complaining about a real attack on Christianity, they're manufacturing a false one. But I'm sure they attack real ones, as well.

I've been living as a vegetarin for more than 40 years now. Don't think it hurt me.

He had me in the first episode, when he put on shades to watch the big bang. I loved the original, but I haven't seen it in more than 30 years. I don't remember it all that well. Besides, we've learned a lot in that time.