When Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that 'he may tarry,' we see the origin of every Jewish shrug from Spinoza to Woody Allen.
Christopher HitchensStichwörter: irony woody-allen judaism baruch-spinoza maimonides messiah
One notorious apikoros named Hiwa al-Balkhi, writing in ninth-century Persia, offered two hundred awkward questions to the faithful. He drew upon himself the usual thunderous curses—'may his name be forgotten, may his bones be worn to nothing'—along with detailed refutations and denunciations by Abraham ibn Ezra and others. These exciting anathemas, of course, ensured that his worrying 'questions' would remain current for as long as the Orthodox commentaries would be read. In this way, rather as when Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that 'he may tarry,' Jewishness contrives irony at its own expense. If there is one characteristic of Jews that I admire, it is that irony is seldom if ever wasted on them.
Christopher HitchensStichwörter: religion atheism self-deprecation irony jews judaism curses heretics maimonides messiah abraham-ibn-ezra hiwi-al-balkhi jewishness orthodox-judaism
I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so enduring. Christianity and Islam, theistic though they may claim to be, are both based on the fetishizing of human primates: Jesus in one case and Mohammed in the other. Neither of these figures can be called exactly historical but both have one thing in common even in their quasi-mythical dimension. Both of them were first encountered by the Jews. And the Jews, ravenous as they were for any sign of the long-sought Messiah, were not taken in by either of these two pretenders, or not in large numbers or not for long.
If you meet a devout Christian or a believing Muslim, you are meeting someone who would give everything he owned for a personal, face-to-face meeting with the blessed founder or prophet. But in the visage of the Jew, such ardent believers encounter the very figure who did have such a precious moment, and who spurned the opportunity and turned shrugging aside. Do you imagine for a microsecond that such a vile, churlish transgression will ever be forgiven? I myself certainly hope that it will not. The Jews have seen through Jesus and Mohammed. In retrospect, many of them have also seen through the mythical, primitive, and cruel figures of Abraham and Moses. Nearer to our own time, in the bitter combats over the work of Marx and Freud and Einstein, Jewish participants and protagonists have not been the least noticeable. May this always be the case, whenever any human primate sets up, or is set up by others, as a Messiah.
Stichwörter: einstein christianity religion atheism jesus myth antisemitism humans marx islam freud jews christians abraham muslims theism muhammad messiah moses prophets
One man carries salvation and damnation from the desert.
Matthew SawyerStichwörter: evil fantasy horror demon monsters possession messiah pazuzu
Life will be wonderful when men no longer fear dying. When the last superstitions are thrown out and we meet death with the same equanimity as life. No longer will children's minds be twisted by evil gods whose fantastic origin is in those barbaric tribes who feared death and lightning, who feared life. That's it: life is the villain to to those who preach reward in death, through grace and eternal bliss, or through dark revenge.
Gore VidalStichwörter: life death messiah gore-vidal
The prophecy is clear, Your Highness. The Messiah shall topple all the kingdoms of the world. Even yours.
Seth Grahame-SmithYour only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in awhile and watch your answers change.
Richard BachStichwörter: truth richard-bach messiah
Strange, how the name Israel, God's own chosen nation, who don't believe Jesus to be the Messiah, sounds almost the same as saying "is He real?
Anthony LiccioneStichwörter: jesus jewish israel nation rejection messiah
It takes the trust of God for things that exist, to wait on him for the evidence of things that do not exist. Faith and hope make you to thank God for the invisible things by looking at the visible things which were once invisible too.
Israelmore AyivorStichwörter: belief god faith hope trust believe jesus appreciation unseen food-for-thought evidence invisible jesus-christ christ visible hopeful sight appreciate see messiah seen the-holy-spirit israelmore-ayivor thank-god faithfully seeing-is-believing seeing-is-not-believing the-father the-son
I do not worship a DEAD and buried Christ at Calvary. I worship a ressurected and LIVING Christ in Heaven! Jesus Christ is alive.
Israelmore AyivorStichwörter: god heaven living dead bible salvation jesus worship save jesus-christ christ alive jehovah messiah god-s-word son-of-god saviour calvary israelmore-ayivor the-word-of-god golgatha golgata my-saviour ressurected true-worship
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