christianity

Terrorists are not criminals

כ״ט בניסן ה׳תשע״א (Tuesday 3 May 2011)

Terrorists are not criminals in the sense that burglars, drunk drivers, perjurers, rapists and litterers are criminals. Terrorism may incidentally be a crime by its inclusion in the statutes that make it one, though pretty much any single action in the modern state is a crime by that standard. The proper paradigm with which to [...]

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The Christian Brotherhood (ie, The Muslim Brotherhood)

כ״ד בשבט ה׳תשע״א (Saturday 29 January 2011)

Somewhere in the world, in a troubled region, there are riots on the streets and an organization called the Christian Brotherhood is poised to succeed in seizing power as that country’s military dictator eventually flees. The Christian Brotherhood is a potentially frightening organization. Its members have been involved in a lot of political violence over [...]

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Obama Is Not a Muslim or a Christian

י״א באלול ה׳תש״ע (Saturday 21 August 2010)

Half Sigma has written a couple posts in the past few days proclaiming that President Obama is not only not a Muslim, but that he’s not a Christian either: Obama: Muslim, atheist, or Christian? Is Obama a Muslim? I know he doesn’t claim that all his ideas are original, but I was saying that Obama [...]

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Jewish Monarchy in Israel

כ״ה בתמוז ה׳תש״ע (Wednesday 7 July 2010)

Will S. asked these questions: I’m Canadian, and an ardent monarchist myself; to me, it ties in with my patriotism, and my faith as a Christian (of the Protestant variety), and my disposition as a Canadian. Monarchy, though, is always at least outwardly religious; whether the Christian monarchs of Europe, or the Islamic kingdoms like [...]

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JFS and Racial Discrimination

ב׳ בטבת ה׳תש״ע (Saturday 19 December 2009)

As a university student in America, I once read an article posing the question: When did the modern era in Jewish history begin? The author’s answer was to point out that the answer depends on who answers the question. A Zionist might say, for example, that modern Jewish history began in 1789 with the rise [...]

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Birobidzhan: The Worst Idea Ever

י״א בכסלו ה׳תש״ע (Saturday 28 November 2009)

How do you know you’ve got the worst idea ever? It’s unlikely that anyone will come up to you and say, “Your idea is so bad it makes me want to cry,” nor will your idea win a “worst idea ever” vote (masses of people tend actually to prefer bad ideas as a matter of [...]

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