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...says much of the course is devoted to trying to understand a culture in which the gods are presented visually, "since most of us--Christian, Jewish, or secular--grew up in a context in which the gods didn't have 5 heads and 10 arms." Eck adds that Hindu myths are "not abstract stories that you learn at your mother's knee, like Greek mythology, but are actually imprinted on the landscape...
Blue laws are a vestige of Massachusetts' Puritan heritage, intended to protect the Christian Sabbath as a day of rest. In today's secular and diverse society, they are increasingly irrelevant. Clinging to these laws not only fails to recognize the changing religious practices of the state and the country, but also fails to recognize the proper limitations of the laws themselves...
Meanwhile, the religious fear that if their secular brothers continue to disobey the commandments of their religion, as they interpret them, they will stop being Jews. Says Friedman: "They fear that one morning they will wake up, and there will be no Jewish people anymore." Even some secularists are worried that too many in their ranks are being alienated from their heritage because of disgust with the behavior of the Orthodox. Says author Yehoshua: "I say, You, secular person, open the Talmud for yourself. We need the religious memory and tradition not to find God but to find the historical...
...target for their dreams, hopes and fears. Since prophecies usually tell us more about the past than the future, how the millennium was envisioned--and, in a sense, invented--during earlier eras says a great deal about the successive stages of Western history, about the religious as well as secular faith of our ancestors--in short, about how we came to be what...
...Much of it is in the religious, apocalyptic tradition. Just about any recent event, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, is taken by some as a sign of the impending Doomsday or the flowering of the Peaceable Kingdom. Countless secular predictions also sway between doom and hope. Socialist Utopias are out of fashion, but belief in free-market cornucopias is rivaled by nightmares of savage Blade Runner cities...