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Your response here leads me to assume that you read my post as if I was promoting the glories of Greek pederasty, i.e., "ancient pagan norms," over and against Jewish patriarchal "oppression" of women. If my assumption is correct, I would suggest that you read my post again. I was, in this...

Addendum: By the way, it's too late to edit now, but I wasn't meaning to suggest that gay people are in favor of pederasty (with my Zeus and Ganymede reference), minority organizations such as NAMBLA notwithstanding. I know far better than that. I would have been clearer, in my meaning, if I...

(Bananabrain, please plug your ears. I am having to respond to Ben Masada who sometimes prefers kick boxing as much as tennis.) Whatev'r. I did notice, the one and only time I was ever in a synagogue in Safed (or for that matter anywhere), that, almost as if an invisible St. Paul had been...

And, what's more, if we, as a nation, seem rather disinclined to go gentle with Europe into that good night of atheism, we ought not be faulted too severely because, according to the framers of our increasingly besieged and beleagured Constitution, we have been endowed "by our Creator" with...

Cheers, bananabrain, and you are two steps before me out the gate. I was going to add another apology to Dream for not having answered his question more directly by saying that not only do I, personally, not consider Judaism in the main (and traditionally) misogynistic, at least when Genesis is...

Amorality, as I see it, and far from being eliminated from the species, has been elevated to a political virtue without which no man or woman shall likely obtain office. Machiavelli wrote the dogma, as it has been summarized: "do good when you can; do evil when you must; do both unhesitatingly...

However, if anybody opts to berate, and though I do realize you are perfectly capable of defending yourself, I shall play Jupiter and hurl a thunderbolt in his or her direction. Thank you for writing such a fascinating and, as we used to say on acid, trippy post! I thoroughly enjoyed it. Best...

In this case, East sings alone, and, interestingly enough, the voice, at times (such as at 1:02), gets caught in the throat: SSqFSgPzchU&feature=related Serv

One of the most advanced in technology and science, J. Robert Oppenheimer, exploded his firecracker in the Mojave Desert and, in the process, became, in his words and quoting the Bhagavad-Gita, Shiva the destroyer of worlds. Therefore, I conclude, science, in its purest form, is religion. Serv

OMG! Thales must have attended synagogue and adapted the prayer for the Greeks. With tongue-in-cheek mode still on, I can think of no other conclusion to be drawn. Serv

Sorry, Dream, I should have put my entire post within [tongue-in-cheek brackets]. Paul could not have had an Artscroll Edition. My point is that, before Ben Masada tries to remove the sliver from the eye of Christianity, he should first remove the beam from that of Judaism. On this latter...

In this (thread's) case, depending upon one's gullibility, one might almost get the impression that the misogynistic Paul had fallen under the influence of Jews and had been repeating, with them, the prayer: "Blessed are you, Hashem, King of the Universe, for not having made me a woman." When...

A question thus arises: was the historian of the Hasmonian period so to speak channeling Daniel when he spoke in the first person, singular, and wrote such verses as this which follows? "Then I, Daniel, looked, and there before me stood two others, one on this bank of the river and one on the...

Perhaps corruption, in this case, is too strong a word. After all, in Abu Fauzi’s absence, I, as a non-Muslim, would not want to be guilty of perpetuating his thread by giving bad dawah (lol). At any rate, given that the Quran says, or implies, in this and other instances, that we, Jews and...

Superlatives abound for the post, in its entirety, but these two sentences, alone, were worth the price of admission: Touche! :D

You might have a very long wait indeed. Again, unlike the authors of the New Testament, who connect the dots for us and who claim, over the objections and protestations of Moses Maimonides and other authorities for Judaism, that Jesus was the Messiah, the author of the Quran makes no such claim...

Even Aleister Crowley is said to have recommended that his son, Randall Gair, read the King James Version of the Bible, together with Shakespeare, to develop style. Those who have been raised to both read and memorize books, a collection of which the Bible is, are, increasingly, easily...

It's a pleasure. I sometimes envy people with fixed conclusions, given that I am, in answer to Elijah, seemingly forever halting between two opinions. That is to say, and with a nod toward (board member) Snoopy, I waffle. Unlike the writers of the New Testament, who not only claimed Jesus...

Hi Sandy K, Of course. And welcome to the discussions. You sound like one of the decidedly convinced. I am thus once again reminded that there is a certain parallelism at play here and that it is as likely -or, rather, unlikely- that Christians will see Muhammad prophesied in the New...

Hi Aupmanyav, Speaking of Asha and of her zing, I wonder if you have heared her collaboration with Michael Stipe of R.E.M.? In this video, East meets West, if only briefly, in spite of Kipling's claim that it wouldn't happen. Anyway, thanks for the report from Asia. Serv