Sunday, January 29, 2012
One day in Jerusalem...
A female CNN journalist heard about a very old Jewish man who had been going to the Western Wall to pray, twice a day, every day, for a long, long time. So she went to check it out. She went to the Western Wall and there he was, walking slowly up to the holy site. She watched him pray and after about 45 minutes, when he turned to leave, using a cane and moving very slowly, she approached him for an interview.
"Pardon me, sir, I'm Rebecca Smith from CNN. What's your name?"
"Morris Feinberg," he replied.
"Sir, how long have you been coming to the Western Wall and praying?""For about 60 years."
"60 years! That's amazing! What do you pray for?"
"I pray for peace between the Christians, Jews and the Muslims. I pray for all the wars and all the hatred to stop. I pray for all our children to grow up safely as responsible adults, and to love their fellow man."
"How do you feel after doing this for 60 years?" "Like I'm talking to a wall."
Monday, January 2, 2012
Feuding monks brawl at Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem - NY Daily News
Here's one to be added to the annals of "Great Church Fights!"
Feuding monks brawl at Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem - NY Daily News
Feuding monks brawl at Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem - NY Daily News
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Thomas Jefferson's Bible
Thomas Jefferson loved the pearls of Jesus' teaching, and decided to publish a collection of his saying, devoid of what he considered to be the inappropriate religious context:
"...In extracting the pure principles which he taught, we should have to strip off the artificial vestments in which they have been muffled by priests, who have travestied them into various forms, as instruments of riches and power to themselves. We must dismiss the Platonists and Plotinists, the Stagyrites and Gamalielites, the Eclectics, the Gnostics and Scholastics, their essences and emanations, their logos and demiurges, aeons and daemons, male and female, with a long train of … or, shall I say at once, of nonsense. We must reduce our volume to the simple evangelists, select, even from them, the very words only of Jesus, paring off the amphibologisms into which they have been led, by forgetting often, or not understanding, what had fallen from him, by giving their own misconceptions as his dicta, and expressing unintelligibly for others what they had not understood themselves. There will be found remaining the most sublime and benevolent code of morals which has ever been offered to man. I have performed this operation for my own use, by cutting verse by verse out of the printed book, and arranging the matter which is evidently his, and which is as easily distinguishable as diamonds in a dunghill. The result is an octavo of forty-six pages, of pure and unsophisticated doctrines..."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Bible
I'd love to have a copy. I'll see if I can't find one. It would be very interesting.
Friday, October 28, 2011
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
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