by Carl Howard | Aug 11, 2015 | Atheism and Religion, Blogging Jewish Law, Blogging the Bible, Feminism and LGBT
You may have seen the news about Yishai Schlissel: he stabbed marchers during Jerusalem’s LGBT parade in 2005, served 10 years and did it again as soon as he got out. He stabbed six people at last week’s parade including 16yo Shira Banki who died of her wounds. This...
by Carl Howard | Dec 16, 2011 | Atheism and Religion, Atrocities and Oppression, Blog Topics, Blogging the Bible, Feminism and LGBT
A story has made it to the news cycle about a week ago about an Afghan woman who is marrying the man who raped her. Via MSNBC: Gulnaz, who uses one name, has been in an Afghan prison cell for about two years. She says she only has one choice if she wants to bring...
by Carl Howard | Mar 29, 2011 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Blogging the Bible
[EDIT: Argh! Yet another posting schedule wardrobe malfunction. Apologies if you saw the half-baked version of this] A month ago someone I know emailed me to ask my interpretation of the Tower of Babel story for a freelance job that required some interpretation of...
by Carl Howard | Oct 13, 2010 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Blogging Jewish Law, Blogging the Bible
In Monday’s post I talked about a few of the basic issues concerning with the Catholic Church restricting public access to the complete Bible. Today it’s time to look at the same in Judaism, which has some very interesting parallels. Of course in general there was not...
by Carl Howard | Oct 11, 2010 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Blogging Jewish Law, Blogging the Bible
I’ve recently decided to take a break from blogging the Bible in favour of a bigger focus on Judaism itself. And the first book to warrant a look-see is the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch. However, before I delve into it, it was worth making an introductory post about the book...
by Carl Howard | Aug 5, 2010 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Blogging the Bible
There’s a wonderful pair of verses in the book of Proverbs. The first of the verses is 24:17 which is a very famous verse. I’ve seen it used many times to show the righteousness of the Bible and I believe I’ve even seen it in a Jewish context as a way of showing that...
