Life is more wonderful, and more terrible, than we could ever have imagined.
I'm a retired ( #ChurchofEngland ) vicar. Still #enchantedbyGod . Not so much with religion(s), or the Church. How and why has 'religion' become so toxic? And how can we who love God detoxiify it?
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Rabbi Jonathan Sacks writes that Judaism is, perhaps uniquely, a civilisation all of whose canonical texts are anthologies of arguments.
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How people pick and choose which #Bible verses to take literally, which to enforce as #civillaw, tells us more about the person, than about God's will. The #Torah indeed is religiously amazing - but #fundamentalism combined with unexamined #prejudice (which we all have) prevents us from understanding it.
So on a related note, how do #Jewish people read the Torah?
https://merrimackvalleyhavurah.wordpress.com/2017/03/12/peshat-and-derash/
This #interfaith group cites the blatant spread of antisemitic #conspiracy theories by pop culture icons and #politicians alike as reason for the statement.
“The United States is facing the greatest crisis of public antisemitism in a century,” the statement claims, warning that “we may be witnessing the normalization of antisemitism in American discourse, which recalls events that happened in Germany when the #Nazis rose to power in the 1930s.”
https://religionnews.com/2022/12/14/this-advent-churches-called-to-assess-worship-for-antisemitism/
Probably important in the UK as well:
https://religionnews.com/2022/12/14/this-advent-churches-called-to-assess-worship-for-antisemitism/
Have I mentioned how smooth I find my #Chromebook experience?
One thing I really appreciate is how common keyboard shortcuts like ctrl-a and ctrl-f just work because it's just a browser. I forget that when I'm in Outlook, which thinks ctrl-f means "forward" instead of "find".
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