Category: religions
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Jewish online resources
- JewishEncyclopedia.com – in English
- judaism.wikia.com – in English; pretty, pretty limited
- www.jewiki.net – in German
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Shlomo Sand’s Wikipedia page under Chabad attack
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlomo_Sand – see the history of this page
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Shlomo_Sand – see the history of this page
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Debresser – Rabbi Dovid de Bresser, a member of the Chassidic movement Chabad
- I assume de Bresser this way (in his thinking) is adding credit points on his way to eternal happiness – he is fighting a religious war against a scientist
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Martin Niemöller’s “First they came for the Jews. Then they came for the journalists.” – Haaretz
- http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/jerusalem-babylon/.premium-1.636067
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Niemöller
… To paraphrase Pastor Martin Niemöller — First they came for the Jews, then they came for the journalists. …
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why does www.obohu.cz/bible display the Tetragrammaton in the title areas in web browsers? THEY CHANGED THAT
I sent an e-mail note to the people running www.obohu.cz/bible, asking:
Why do you display the Tetragrammaton (in Hebrew letters) in the title areas in web browsers?
You do know, that for … religious Jews that is a rather bad
habit, don’t you? It makes them rather avoid your library, and that should not be necessary, don’t you agree?I would like to hear your opinion on this.
Libor Divis from Praha replied:
… O Bohu – in Czech it means “About God” …
Orthodox religious Jews might not be satisfied with Tetragrammaton (replacing THE TETRAGRAMMATON in Hebrew letters), the Catholics are not satisfied with Jehovah, Jehovah’s Witnesses are not satisfied with (replacing THE TETRAGRAMMATON in Latin letters), and almost all other “Christians” are satisfied with nothing – except meaningless names like e.g. GOTT, HERR, GOD, LORD, HOSPODIN, …
I think, that It is right to obey God rather than men. (“New Testament”, Acts 5:29)
And what God said?
Exod 3:15 : And God said to Moses again, You shall say this to the sons of Israel, Jehovah ((replacing THE TETRAGRAMMATON in Hebrew letters)), the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever, and this is My memorial from generation to generation.
I asked for permission to blog our communication, and here is, what he answered:
no problem regarding your blog …
Gal 1:10 : For do I now persuade men or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I would not be a slave of Christ.
Yes, I think I know, what I’m doing.
I assume, he is simply a misguided, fundamentalist warrior. That’s sad.
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how far away is this from Agnosticism? “Religious Science” / “Science of Mind” (established in 1927 by Ernest Holmes)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_Science
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Holmes
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnosticism
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_I_Am_Not_a_Christian – the one work of him, that influenced me deeply in my early twenties
Science of Mind was established in 1927 by Ernest Holmes (1887–1960) and is a spiritual, philosophical and metaphysical religious movement within the New Thought movement. In general, the term “Science of Mind” applies to the teachings, while the term “Religious Science” applies to the organizations. However, adherents often use the terms interchangeably.
In his book, The Science of Mind, Ernest Holmes stated “Religious Science is a correlation of laws of science, opinions of philosophy, and revelations of religion applied to human needs and the aspirations of man.” He also stated that Religious Science/Science of Mind (RS/SOM) is not based on any “authority” of established beliefs, but rather on “what it can accomplish” for the people who practice it.[1] Today the International Centers for Spiritual Living, the United Centers for Spiritual Living (which combined into the Centers for Spiritual Living in 2011) and Global Religious Science Ministries are the main denominations promoting Religious Science.
How to put it? It appears to me like yet another list of insights and commandments, that a core team teaches the ignorant. It is rather far away from my kind of agnosticism.
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the Ukraine and the Jewish Khazar Kingdom
Not referring explicitly to Shlomo Sand, but I read about the Khazar Kingdom in one of his books.