Wednesday 18 March 2015

Huffington Post: All Religious People Aren't the Same

There is so much talk in the world these days about religion and being religious. There is a problem, though, in that people are locked into their own perceptions of these terms. See further on this in my latest Huffington Post blog: All Religious People Aren't the Same.

My original title for the post, btw, was 'God' but it was changed by the editors.

Please feel free to comment here or there.

Rabbi Ben Hecht

1 comment:

micha berger said...

The change in title combined with the content of the article itself raises the question of what descriptions of G-d are definitional, and which are not. How do we decide when we're talking about two different perceptions of the same G-d, or it's two groups worshiping different deities?

The Rambam, for whom the article of faith is believe in a Creator, would yeild a very different answer to that question than would R' Yehudah haLevi and his greater reliance on the beginning of the Decalog, "I am Hashem your G-d, Who took you out of Egypt..."