Red Sea Black Friday
November 23, 2007 > MAUI TODAY, Maui Curmudgeon No Comments
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Black Friday
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — ‘Ano ‘ole: Nonsense HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “A hikapalale hinolua o walawala ki poha” (Nonsenseical gibberish Hawaiians say the first white visitor to the islands said.)
Look, There’s an Inn, Stop and Ask(Photo: Moses does everyone’s laundry while on a Sinai camping trip.)
November 23, 2007: Well, we’re entering the crazy time of year, when people shop to celebrate the fairytale birth of a savior, or light candles to honor non-existent ancestors. Yes, it’s a crazy time. Not an inappropriate time to address some of this bunk.The decades of ’80s and ’90s were very rough on the world’s modern Western religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. During this time, science not only caught up with these mythologies but overran them with so many findings as to confuse the various followers. In two cases, Judaism and Islam, science obliterated them. You can choose logic and common sense, or these religions, but you cannot choose both. They are now mutually exclusive. The third, Christianity, hangs by a thread which seems imminently about to break. Today, let’s talk about Judaism.
During the ’90s, one scientist, a well-known and respected paleontologist, Stephen Jay Gould, wrote an article attempting to make peace between the increasingly warring factions of science and religion. His point was simple: he said religion and science have no overlapping magesteria. That is, each covered different subjects and so in essence, in Gould’s point of view, each subject did not comment on the other, nor could each subject inflict harm on the other.
