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Category Archives: Christianity
Who Attacked Us On 9/11?
On his radio show today, Dennis Prager said: “Yesterday’s [media] was wall-to-wall 9/11 and appropriately so. What was missing from yesterday’s discussion was reference to who attacked us. It was as if New York Pennsylvania and Washington D.C. experienced a … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Dennis Prager, Islam, Jews
Tagged aberrations, Dennis Prager, islamic terror, islamic terrorists, s media, york pennsylvania
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Rick Perry’s Day Of Prayer
Chaim Amalek emails: Mocking people for praying to God comes too easily for our cultural elites. Would they have dared mock Martin L. King for his public prayers to Jesus, or more recently, any of Obama’s pastors or an Imam? … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Politics
Tagged ceo compensation, h1b visa holders, milton friedman, public prayers, shareholder approval, social strata
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Is Suffering Good?
I’m reading the superb book Ayn Rand and the World She Made by Anne Conover Heller. Ayn Rand never liked to acknowledge that she was Jewish. Ayn considered herself an atheist and no part of the Jewish people. In 1940, … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Jews, Libertarian
Tagged anne conover, isabel paterson, philosophy economics, religious mystic, rose wilder lane, stephen d cox, suffering stinks
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Why Don’t Christians Help Christians?
Dennis Prager writes: In the Muslim world, Christians are being murdered, churches are being torched, entire ancient Christian communities — the Iraqi and Palestinian, for example — are disappearing. And, again, 2 billion Christians react with silence. There are some … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Dennis Prager, Islam
Tagged Dennis Prager, muslim religious leaders, persecution of christians, pope benedict, pope benedict xvi, world christians
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Guided By The Holy Spirit
This is smoking hot! She talks in favor of creationism: She talks about the earthquake in Japan:
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Human Flight In The Jewish Tradition
Rabbi Marc B. Shapiro blogs: The most famous example of human flight in Jewish literature is that of Jesus. As described in Toledot Yeshu, Jesus was able to use God’s holy name in order to fly, and was brought down … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Marc B. Shapiro
Tagged human flight, jewish heritage tour, Jewish Literature, jewish tradition, judas iscariot, Marc B. Shapiro, mass delusion, yeshu
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Is A Jew Permitted To Wish A Goy “Merry Christmas”?
I’ve always wished the goyim a “Merry Christmas” because that’s just the kind of guy that I am — always full of good cheer and bonhomie. Today, I was in shul and I was about to wish the Mexicans cleaning … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Orthodoxy
Tagged baby jesus, cheter, good cheer, judeo christian ethics, orthodox judaism, orthodox rabbi, orthodox rabbis, religious festival, religious truth
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Painting Shows Jesus Getting Blown By A Dude
Click here to see the picture and read the accompanying article.
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Judaism’s Daughter Religions
In a 1993 lecture on Genesis 22, Dennis Prager says: Judaism has two daughter religions — Christianity and Islam. Christians from left to right acknowledge that Christianity emanated from Judaism but Muslims do not acknowledge that Islam emanates Judaism. It … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Dennis Prager, Islam
Tagged christianity and islam, Dennis Prager, islam view, Jews, Judaism
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Hasidim Don’t Study Torah On Christmas Eve
In a lecture for Torah in Motion on Christmas Eve, 2009, Professor Marc B. Shapiro says: This has got to be the strangest thing that Hasidim do and they do a lot of strange things. Some of you might have … Continue reading
Posted in Benyamin Cohen, Christianity, Hasidim, Marc B. Shapiro
Tagged Benyamin Cohen, Marc B. Shapiro, slate magazine, study torah, torah in motion, word christmas
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