Christianity, Judaism and Islam all have traditions that frown upon cremation, if not outright prohibit it. Islam instructs its followers to bury their dead as quickly as possible, preferably within the day of the death. (Abhorrence for any practice seen as desecrating a Muslim body also means ...
Statistic goes on to lament that the Jews bury the body rather than burn it following the Egyptians custom. They likewise bestow the same care on the dead and hold the same belief of the world below, but their ideas of heavenly things are quite the opposite. So they take care, in other...
David’s attendants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they thought, “While the child was still living, he wouldn’t listen to us when we spoke to him. How can we now tell him the child is dead? He may do something desperate.”New Living TranslationThen on the ...
Hitler commanded people what to do in the book, and they did them without hesitating. For example, the German people were told to send persecute the Jews and turn them in, so most people did exactly that. Words not only can influence a person’s actions, but their mood as well. Liesel...
Four decades ago, less than 5 percent of American were cremated when they died. Now that figure stands at nearly half. This is how cremation actually works, and what happens to a culture when its attitude about how to memorialize the dead undergoes a rev
So the Jews adapted to the situation in other ways. The second factor was the incredible rise of Christianity, which in a way took their [the Jewish] scriptures and turned the Bible against them; I think this cured the Jews of this kind of speculation—until the Middle Ages when there ...
Scholars often depict Christianity as “opposing infanticide.” Most do not mention that what they actually sometimes objected to was killing a child after it was part of the Church. Stein shows that “Jews only until recently regarded any child who dies within thirt...
Ekaterina had no chance to commit the crime because she was taken away before she could actually do so. So this 15 seconds of being on the ambone (the place where they made their performance in the church) Katya with her lawyer estimated as preparation for the crime. For months prior, ...
Most preppers and survivalists are likely going to store their water in large storage containers or barrels outside. This is simply because most people lack adequate space in their home or garage tostore water. However, water stored outside is always more at risk of becoming frozen if you li...
I will give you the worst example. It was in Ukraine, in Odesa. The lady I interviewed said, “Stop making an interview with me, go to the family in front because they were hosting Jews, and the Jews were dead every day. So it means they killed them.” So I stopped the interview...