Thoughts and Prayers: The Religion Thread

torah!
torah!
torah!

 

Et Tu, Jude?

 

I think it's much more than that.

 

I looked it up before I posted it, and I calculated the cost of the amount of silver involved.

 

I don't think the monetary value is determined by taking the weight in silver and assigning the current value of silver.

 

Honestly, it wasn't like Jesus was in hiding. How many time could he have been taken into custody after he got sideways with the establishment?

 

An unexpected bit of news concerning the UMC. The African bishops that both sides felt would be leading their churches into the breakaway conservative group take a hard pass.

 

religious education goin' great


In Hasidic Enclaves, Failing Private Schools Flush With Public Money

The Hasidic Jewish community has long operated one of New York’s largest private schools on its own terms, resisting any outside scrutiny of how its students are faring.

But in 2019, the school, the Central United Talmudical Academy, agreed to give state standardized tests in reading and math to more than 1,000 students.

Every one of them failed.

 

No tax money to any cult. Not my cult. Not your cult. No Jesus Centric schools, no Talmud centric schools.

 

My extreme brethren are here to make and milk as many babies as possible, wear Tzitzit, and daven.

There may be a mathematical equation for that, but don't ask them to solve it.

 

oof

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2022/09/13/modeling-the-future-of-religion-in-america/

 

Read that last week and shuddered, as my inner 10-year-old imagined being dragged off to a few dozen specially called revival meetings on the topic.