The Messiah is supposed to gather the Jewish people back to the land of Israel, but Israel has already been gathered, and modern Israel has fulfilled prophecies without the appearance of the Messiah. Some rabbis say that prophecy is being fulfilled in a non-miraculous way because of certain modern conditions. This seems like a poor…

Christians tend to believe that the people of ancient Jerusalem saw Jesus as a false prophet who committed blasphemy by claiming to be God and for this reason Jesus had to be put to death. The four gospels seem to focus on this as the motivation for those who wanted Jesus executed, but the gospels…

For millennia the story of Sodom and Gomorrah has been seen as a condemnation of people who are homosexuals. The real sins of Sodom were pride and a lack of compassion for the poor. Not that we should enslave the poor with endless handouts, but “strengthen the hand of the poor”, or help the poor…