The Gifts of the Jews : How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels (1998)I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize man than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed in blind eternal fate, I should still believe that chance had ordered the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations. If I were an atheist to the other sect, who believed or pretended to believe that all is ordered by chance, I should believe that chance has ordered the Jews to preserve and propagate to all mankind the doctrine of a supreme, intelligent, wise, almighty sovereign of the universe, which I believe to be the great essential principle of all morality, and consequently of all civilization. (Reviewed:) Grade: (A-) Tweet Websites:-Thomas Cahill, the Official Web Site -EXCERPT : Chapter One of Gifts of the Jews -EXCERPT : Chapter One of Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus. 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(TM) or Sagans of years of evolution, the message of Torah & Bible as commented in Gifts of the Jews is to Transcend the Animal -- to become more than animals howling in rut on the steps of the ziggurat. Animals don't progress. Animals are bound by the Great Wheel of their own natures and instincts. Animals eat, sleep, fight, and have sex. Over and over, never breaking out of the Wheel. ANIMALS howl in rut on the steps of the ziggurat and in the muck at Woodstock. - Ken - Jun-14-2004, 12:57 ******************************************************* |
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