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| | Abrahamic religion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | All the Abrahamic religions are derived to some extent from Judaism as practiced in ancient kingdoms of Israel and Judah prior to the Babylonian Exile, at the beginning of the 1st millennium BCE. | | | In the study of comparative religion, an Abrahamic religion is any of those religions deriving from a common ancient Semitic tradition and traced by their adherents to Abraham ("Father/Leader of many" Hebrewאַבְרָהָם Arabicابراهيم), a patriarch whose life is narrated in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, and as a prophet in the Qur'an. | | | While all three religions unequivocally condemn male homosexuality, lesbianism is nowhere explicitly mentioned in the Old Testament, the New Testament, or the Qur'an; though some scholars have argued the passage in Romans 1:26, "Their women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural," is a reference to it. |
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| | They cannot wait any longer, their new Covenant with the children of Israel is coming to an end and the Raelian Religion can now address the request of ambassadorial status to any country in the world. | | | All the National Raelian Religions send a document notifying the Hebrew State of an upcoming event crucial for its existence, to all the embassies and consulates of Israel in their respective countries, as well as to the deputies of the Knesset. | | | Rael, with the Elohim's approval, decides to change the symbol of the Raelian Religion, to ease the negotiations in anticipation for building the Embassy in Israel, and out of respect for the sensitivity of the victims of nazism. |
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http://www.worthynews.com/news-features/extra-terr.html
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| | The Religion of the Canaanites |
| | Compromise between Israel's God and the degraded deities of Canaanite religion was unthinkable. | | | This is one of the grossly irrational aspects of Canaanite religion, indicative of its corrupt nature. | | | The depraved character of Canaanite religion is indicated by the character of Anath. |
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| | Amazon.com: Jewish History, Jewish Religion : The Weight of Three Thousand Years (Pluto Middle Eastern Studies): Books: Israel Shahak |
| | Most disturbing, Shahak insists that the religion, in its classical and talmudic form, is "poisoning minds and hearts." This controversial attack of Israel by a Jew is bound to alarm Jewry worldwide. | | | Whatever your point of view on the situation in Israel, whatever your religion or philosophical perspective, however deeply you hold your convictions, you cannot fail to be challenged by this marvelous book. | | | Frightening, too, is the near-total control of most Jewish organizations now in the hands of Zionists; it is now almost impossible for a Jew to openly disassociate him or herself from, let alone be critical of, the state of Israel or the aims of Zionism. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0745308198?v=glance
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| | Israeli Civil Religion |
| | They practice one or another theistic religion in their homes and are members of the Israeli civil religion outside their homes, in the political lives they lead and in their relationship to the State. | | | A distinguishing feature of civil religion in states whose populations originate from many different lands (like the USA, Canada and Israel), is the members' total severing of emotional ties with the history of the countries or people that they originated from before arriving in their new country. | | | Members of this new religion or sect will be entitled to the same budgets that are presently given to synagogues, churches, mosques and religious educational institutions. |
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http://www.whyreligion.com/titles/i28.htm
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| | The “Canaanites” |
| | The idea of “Israelite religion” assimilating to “Canaanite religion” is therefore invalid; as long as Israel had been Israel, their religion had been Canaanite religion, plus a Yahwist element that was ideally exclusive but not always afforded this importance. | | | Canaanite religion was fertility oriented, as was appropriate for a nation of settled farmers, and polytheistic, as all religions of the time were – barring orthodox Yahwism. | | | Canaanite religion was centred on the needs of an agriculture-based society, rather than those of nomadic shepherds. |
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| | Abrahamic religion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | All the Abrahamic religions are derived to some extent from Judaism as practiced in ancient kingdoms of Israel and Judah prior to the | | | What constitutes an Abrahamic religion varies from each observer's point of view, as a universal classification system cannot be agreed on by everyone. | | | Some of their gods (such as Baal) are mentioned in the Bible, and the supreme god of the Semitic pantheon, El, is believed by some scholars to be the God of the Biblical patriarchs. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abrahamic_religion
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| | Shahak: The Jews are Bad |
| | Shahak is full of startling revelations, if that is the word, about Jewish history and the Jewish religion. | | | Shahak says that he wants Jews to change their ways and to stop the atrocities associated with Zionism and Orthodox Jewish religion. | | | In Shahak's version, with which he begins this book, the Jew here followed the ruling the of orthodox rabbinate. |
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http://www.wernercohn.com/Shahak.html
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| | Canaanite culture and religion |
| | Many Israelites succumbed to the allurements of the fertility-laden rituals and practices of the Canaanite religion, partly because it was new and different from the Yahwistic religion and, possibly, because of a tendency of a rigorous faith and ethic to weaken under the influence of sexual attractions. | | | As the Canaanites and the Israelites began to live in closer contact with each other, the faith of Israel tended to absorb some of the concepts and practices of the Canaanite religion. | | | The religion of the Canaanite agriculturalists proved to be a strong attraction to the less sophisticated and nomadic-oriented Israelite tribes. |
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| | Religion & Culture in Ancient Israel by J. Andrew Dearman @ CenturyOne Bookstore |
| | In Religion and Culture in Ancient Israel, J. Andrew Dearman explores this dynamic interplay in the religion and religious practices of Israel. | | | For anyone wanting to study the living religion of Israel and the culture that it shaped and by which it was itself shaped, Dearman offers a cogent, sane, and thought-provoking inquiry. | | | This is no less true in the ancient Near Eastern world for the nation of Israel. |
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| | Religion Christianity When G-d Withdraws His Glory |
| | 4 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain. | | | 3 And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. | | | 23 And the glory of the Lord went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city. |
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http://www.url.biz/Articles/Article-1118.html
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| | Bene Israel |
| | Shipwrecked on the coast south of Bombay with nothing but oral relics of their religion, and entirely cut off from other Jews until the eighteenth century, they nonetheless called themselves Bene Israel "children of Israel" and succeeded in preserving a form of Judaism. | | | The number of Bene Israel in India rose from about 7000 in the 19th century to about 24,000 in 1947. | | | Most now live in Israel, where there was controversy over their Jewishness, until the Orthodox Chief Rabbinate decreed in 1962 that marriage with Bene Israel was permitted, and the Israeli prime minister issued a statement in 1964 that the government of Israel regards them as Jews in every respect. |
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| | Judaic Studies |
| | Extensive selection of important papers by the late pioneer of Jewish political thought features seminal works on the idea of covenant, biblical studies, Jewish community, Israel-Diaspora relations, and religion in Israeli society [posted by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs]. | | | Electronic encyclopedia with lucid articles on Jewish history, biography, religion and politics; features a virtual Israel experience and graphic section on Judaic treasures in the Library of Congress (developed by the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise). | | | Section from Paul Flesher's Exploring Religions covers Jewish cosmology, organization, religious life, worship, sacred literature, with a glossary, timeline and maps (U of Wyoming). |
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| | Anti-Zionism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In Islam and the Problem of Israel (1980), he argued that Zionism was a "disease" largely influenced by European romanticism far removed from the religion of the Jews, Judaism. | | | Many commentators, particularly those supportive of Israel, believe that criticisms of Israel and Zionism are often disproportionate in degree and unique in kind, and attribute this to anti-Semitism. | | | Advocates of this may not necessarily consider themselves "anti-Zionist." They note that the bi-national concept was advanced by a vocal minority within the Zionist movement itself at the time of the founding of the state of Israel, notably by the writer Martin Buber, and by Judah Magnes, the first president of Hebrew University. |
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| | Israel-Palestine peace process - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Israel-Palestine peace process |
| | The same month, Israel's Supreme Court ruled that the government could not re-allocate state-owned land on the basis of ethnicity or religion. | | | Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the spiritual leader of Israel's influential Shas party, was criticized by many Israeli politicians for preaching a sermon calling for God's annihilation of Arabs. | | | Extremist attacks, principally the work of the militant Islamic groups, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, continued, and in November 1994, Israel closed its borders with the Gaza Strip. |
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| | Holy sites of importance to all three religions would be administered by a special government committee, with representatives of each religion on the committee, as well as philosophers, historians and other scholars with no religion, overseen by a similar U.N. committee to check for balance and fairness. | | | After that date, anyone wishing to become a citizen can apply and will be accepted on the basis of a need, if there is one, for that particular person's skill, regardless of race or religion. | | | Israel should withdraw to its pre-1967 borders (but bearing in mind that they won the extra land - the so-called Occupied Territories - fairly and squarely in a war they did not start, and that should be acknowledged); 2. |
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| | Caesarea |
| | Caesarea was a cosmopolitan city, of mixed religions, thoroughly Hellenized, and resisted the coming of the Arabs. | | | Caesarea was the capital in the days of Jesus and his apostles, and the city was the favorite residence of Herod. | | | The area south of Mount Carmel, the plain of Sharon, was sand dunes along a ragged shoreline. |
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| | The Watchman Expositor: Raelian Profile |
| | Since the "Raelians believe that the ancient Israelites had a special covenant with Earth's creator" and since they "believe that the destruction of the world is near," the Raelians also believe that "the state of Israel must grant Raelians land in Jerusalem on which to build an embassy to welcome the aliens" (Gazette, p. | | | According to claims by the Raelian Religion, "On the 13th of December 1973, French journalist Claude Vorilhon (now called Rael) was contacted by a visitor from an other planet, and asked to establish an embassy to welcome these people back to Earth. | | | The Raelian Movement states that "All the great prophets, including Buddha, Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed were messengers of the extra-terrestrials" (section "The Messages of the Elohim: Book One - First half," at ). |
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| | Prepare to Meet Your God |
| | So Israel comes to meet God at Bethel with lives that are dirty and with outward forms of religion that have lost all real connection with truth. | | | He went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and he ordained a feast for the people of Israel, and went up to the altar to burn incense. | | | Are the priests of Bethel true priests of the living God? |
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| | Is Islam a Religion of Peace? |
| | The would be depots want to dupe their people into giving them power, so they use the authority of the Koran to build the boogieman of religion and "Israel" and Israel's chief helper the decadent, tool of satan USA to enflame their troops. | | | Islam has been described by some as "a religion of peace." In fact, it has been pointed out the word "Islam" itself means "peace." We are told that the acts of the Islamic terrorists are an aberration of the true Muslim faith. | | | Judaism and Christianity probably influenced Muhammad, along with the folk religions of the region. |
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| | Babylonia and Assyria, Religion of - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia |
| | No question concerning the religion of Babylonia and Assyria is of so great interest and importance to students of the Bible as the question of the relation between this religion and the faith of Yahweh, as professed by Israel. | | | Next in importance to the gods in the Babylonian religion are the demons who had the power to afflict men with manifold diseases of body or mind. | | | His religion is not developed out of Babylonian polytheism which existed as polytheism in the earliest periods and endured as polytheism unto the end. |
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| | Professor Israel Shahak Speaks the Truth about Jewish "Religion". A plot against Radio Islam. |
| | Professor Israel Shahak Speaks the Truth about Jewish "Religion". | | | He is not one of these himself, and so he is able to look with some degree of objectivity at the mixture of superstition, Jewish chauvinism, and hatred of non-Jews which makes up the Jewish religion and its sacred writings. | | | Israel Shahak is a rare Jew indeed, and his book is essential reading for anyone interested in the problem of the Jews. |
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| | The Religion of "Christian" Humanism |
| | This Old Testament experience of Balaam’s collaboration with Balak and the unlawful union of Israel with the people and religion of Moab is powerful proof that the cultural problems in a society are the direct results of doctrinal heresy in the church. | | | This was the unlawful combining of different peoples, religions and cultures which resulted in God’s curse upon His people Israel. | | | Modern Christianity is no longer monotheistic in worship and doctrine, because it now bows at the altar of its new god of humanism, the worship of man. |
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| | Israel Shahak on the Secrets of Judaism |
| | Those religious Jews in Israel who are honest, as the majority of them undoubtedly are, are so not because of the influence of their religion and rabbis, but in spite of it. | | | By this official definition, Israel 'belongs' to persons who are defined by the Israeli authorities as 'Jewish', irrespective of where they live, and to them alone. | | | Because in general social life religion is only one of the social influences, its effect on the mass of believers is not nearly so great as on the rabbis and leaders of the religious parties. |
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| | Israel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | According to Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics, at the end of 2004, 76.2% of Israelis were Jews by religion, 16.1% were Muslims, 2.1% Christian, 1.6% Druze and the remaining 3.9% (including Russian immigrants and some Jews) were not classified by religion. | | | The name "Israel" is rooted in the Hebrew Bible, where Jacob is renamed Israel after wrestling with a mysterious adversary. | | | Israel's GDP per capita, as of 28 July 2005, was $20,551.20 per person (42nd in the world). |
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| | Theology Today - Vol 33, No. 4 - January 1977 - ARTICLE - The Ambiguity of Biblical Religion |
| | The prophetic preaching against the idolatrous trends in the religion of Israel was not simply aimed at the worship of idols; it also included the repudiation of world views that were incompatible with faith in the true God. | | | Whether we follow the sociologists who understand religion mainly in terms of worship and the worshiping community or those who prefer to define religion in terms of symbol-systems directing people's lives and giving meaning to their existence, Christianity in whatever form is a visible religion. | | | So vulnerable is the religion of God's people that it is in constant need of redemption; the believing community remains in need of the divine Word which continues to judge its religion and renew it in terms of greater trust, surrender, and fidelity. |
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| | "Israel's Tele-Rabbi," Religion in the News, Summer 2003, by Michele Rosenthal. | | | Kabbalah for Dummies, Religion in the News, Summer 2004, by Rachel Claflin. | | | Religion in the News, Fall 2003, by Jerome Chanes.. |
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| | "The Religion of the Patriarchs" by Gordon J. Wenham |
| | The final stage in the development of pre-monarchic religion was the introduction of Yahweh as the national God of all Israel in the Mosaic period. | | | The type of religion portrayed in Genesis has many points in common with later Israelite practice, but this is not to prove that the patriarchal stories are simply retrojections of first-millennium ideas into a fictional past. | | | Though the sources that describe the patriarchs' religion are not as early or detailed as a religious historian would like, this study has tended to support the main conclusions of modern scholarship about the character of that religion. |
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