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The Christians of Egypt are the Jews of the Early 21st Century
I’m not being hyperbolic. The world needs to protect the Christians of Egypt, and it can do so by opening opportunities for them to immigrate. Christians number about 9 million people in Egypt—about 10% of the population—and they’re “the other” standing in the way … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, Christians, coptic, Egypt, Exodus, immigration, Islam, Jesus, Jews, Moses, muhammad, Statue of Liberty
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Adam Sandler’s “Happy Hanukkah” Song
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Tagged adam sandler, America, hannukah, happy holidays, holidays, Jews, Judaism
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An Agnostic Interviews an Imam: Kamal Tells a Non-Retaliation Story from His Tradition and Discusses the Prayer Rug
In the below clip, Kamal al Khatib offers an anecdote from the life of Muhammad that illustrates (for him) Islam’s general commitment to non-retaliation. I’ve actually heard the story that Kamal tells from another Muslim. I recall the previous telling of the … Continue reading
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A Muslim Rises to the Existential Occasion, Protecting a Jew from Some “Christians”
A little reminder about making hasty generalizations about people:
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Tagged Christianity, humanity, Islam, Jesus, Jews, Judaism, love, muhammad, Muslims, peace
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Atheists Top the Religious in Religious Knowledge
A recent Pew Survey on religious knowledge has found that atheists do better on a battery of religious knowledge questions than Jews, Christians, Mormons—indeed, anybody else. Out of 32 questions, atheists, on average, managed to answer about 21 of the questions … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheists, Catholicism, God, idiocracy, Jews, Martin Luther, mormons, Muslims, Protestants, psychology, transubstantiation
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Your WTF is not necessarily your neighbor’s WTF
A little life reminder that the messages we send, and the messages we think we send, may not be the same: There is an image circulating on the Internet (but that I can’t seem to embed here) of a megachurch promoting … Continue reading
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Tagged buddhists, Christians, communication, have a meal with a muslim day, hindus, irony, Islam, Jews, Muslims, rhetoric, social psychology, wtf
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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: A Christian Who Hid Jews From Hitler
According to the U.S. Holocaust Museum photo archive, Father Bruno (Henri Reynders), a Belgian Benedictine monk, “presided over a vast rescue effort that protected the lives of between 300 and 400 Jews, most of them children, during the German occupation.” … Continue reading
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Tagged antisemitism, benedictine, Catholicism, father bruno, genocide, Jesus, Jews, Judaism, religion
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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Kindertransport Photo, February 1939
Source: Wikipedia and German Federal Archives
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Tagged authoritarianism, children, England, exile, fascism, Jews, Judaism, kindertransport, life
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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: An American Soldier Removes One of the Few Survivors on the Dachau Death Train, April 29, 1945
Source: U.S. Holocaust Museum photo archives
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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Dachau, 1945
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Prometheus Unbound 