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...
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...
given something for having to move or being driven out of their homes where they’d lived for generations, their forefathers lived there before them, and I think they should have been allowed some consideration for that.Hubert Stooksbury “TVA and the Dispossessed” The Verdict This books ended...
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 thirty...
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
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 ...
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 ...
the Arabian Jews “ran through those with their swords who desired them to remember the relation there was between them, and begged of them to have regard to their common temple.” As the people “were driven one upon another in heaps, so were they slain.” The “outer t...
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...