"On Rosh Hashana it is written and on Yom Kippur it is sealed...Who shall live and who shall die...who shall be at ease and who afflicted."

Mares eat oats and goats eat oats and little lambs eat ivy.

Nothing has been written but dusty books of gibberish.

Grow up. Get real. Those who worship relics are wasting their lives.

I am agnostic.

Although I have slammed all of them from time to time for varied and sundry reasons, usually for their, in my perception and/or imagination, sometimes abuse of others and of one another, I nevertheless truly wish for peace and prosperity to all Jews, Muslims and Christians. The same goes for any other religious faith as well as atheists and agnostics.

A wise man, after a brutal police beating, once asked, "Can't we all just get along?"

We wrote the book so we chose ourselves;wouldn't you?

L'Shana Tovah, Abby.

errrrrr why do I care? I thought his was a news site for left wing people. Way to much God stuff on here recently. Its part of he problem, not the solution........

To all who were created "scientifically" good luck. Tony

Firingbullitis touche'.

How to deal with a Quran burning.

http://coyotesings.wordpress.com/

There is always wisdom to be found for those who have the eyes to see and the ears to hear. This has nothing to do with slapping a particular believer label on yourself. As far as the "God" talk, the question of how are we to live a good life is a foundational human question with a long epistemological, ontological, and philosophical history. Those who have made their own personal peace with it tend not to need to "refudiate" others.

Pax.

The only ‘sin’ in America is having a low credit score.

"It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all. "
-Denis Diderot-

Re-read all these comments, don't you see the futility. All important things wind up being taken on Faith, there is no convincing a true believer. You can read the Koran and find vicious anti-Semitic sections but that won't convince anyone who favors Islam that it may not be a book of Peace. These things always work out by attrition not education. Sure it's not the way "it should be" but it's the way it really is.
Some believe in Magic Men in the heavens some believe in a magic explosion and the order that formed out of Chaos. Both are True and false at the same time, like that guys cat, alive and dead at the same time.
Remember Gandhi, beautiful thoughts, words and actions but as most Idealist Pacifists, he wound up in a pool of his own blood, and the struggle continues. How many peaceful, sensitive civilizations have survived this world, I know our East Coast Indians have been reduced to roadside attractions and logos.
You might as well argue with cancer, Life is struggle, when the struggle ends that's called Death.

Rooooooooosh Hashanah!
When the Jews repent of all their sins!
No one will care, if The Unetanetokef Prayer
Does not apply to arabs over there!

( sung to the tune of Oklahoma)

You know, it is possible -- just possible -- that just as we are able to read, say, "Ode to a Nightingale" as something other than a bizarre monologue addressed to a literal bird, some of us are capable of reading books like the Torah, Koran, and Bible somewhat less than literally; that a preferable and helpful use of such texts is as a kind of celebratory poetic expression of the same kinds of values that are expressed in secular terms as, for instance, "justice" and "peace"; that, in effect, religious and secular expressions of the same values are no more mutually exclusive than, for instance, the French word "arbre" and the English "tree," or the Arabic "salaam" and the Hebrew "shalom"; that, accordingly, the millions of human beings of all genders and races who have fought for peace and justice while singing words from those books have not been idiotic or schizophrenic, and that their enemies' and oppressors' claims to ownership of the same texts has not been uncontestable. It has certainly not gone uncontested.

L'shana tovah, Abby.