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When Pastors who Burn Bibles Become Celebrities
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Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
So, is that what it takes to become a celebrity these days? Threaten to burn someone else’s Bible, and declare their religion to be satanic, and you are instantly the center of the news? I wonder who is the bigger fool. Terry Jones, the Florida pastor who is an embarrassment to loving Christians…
If an American President Were Muslim, Would we Care?
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Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
So Brian Williams asks President Obama what he thinks of the fact that one fifth all Americans believes he is a Muslim. The President gets defensive and sheepishly responds that this issue was put to bed during the campaign.
My Purpose in Debating Christopher Hitchens on the Afterlife
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Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
Is atheism necessary for religion? Rabbi Zusya would say yes. The great Russian Hassidic Rabbi, who lived more than two hundred years ago, was one day teaching his students when he emphasized the necessity of atheism and agnosticism. His students were aghast. Had the master lost his mind? He proved his point. “Say you’re…
Status Symbols and the Black American Express
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Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
As a seventeen-year-old student at Rabbinical college, a riddle was put to me. A beggar is invited to a billionaire’s home for dinner. The homeless man has never had such scrumptious food. He throws his entire being into slopping down his soup and devouring his chicken. Meanwhile, the rich man puts a napkin on his…
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