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All Jewish, all the time… Even if you’re an Atheist Jew


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All Jewish, all the time… Even if you’re an Atheist Jew

I came across this piece about 2,500 Jews spending the week between Christmas and the New Year sitting at a Limmud. Which isn’t all that exciting. Then, there’s this. Deborah Freeman describes herself as a “borderline atheist”. Are there also atheists who come to Limmud? I ask Adler and the others at the info desk. Sure, [...]

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Google as God


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Google as God

From the American Atheist zine comes an interesting article “Google As God: A Theology of Information Technology” (in PDF). The world’s most famous Internet company has never claimed to be god. Unlike the classically understood ‘uncreated creator,’ Google’s giant brain is hosted on an estimated half-million servers, is invented by humans, and remains contingent upon [...]

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Faith does not equal knowledge


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Faith does not equal knowledge

My husband recently had a status-off on Facebook with an old Christian fundy friend, let’s call her Eve. Many of the points she said made didn’t make much sense, but that’s not what propelled me write. Eve, using her very own special brand of circular logic, did what many Christians do: confused faith with knowledge. [...]

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