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From Yiddish איציק (itsik), a variant or pet form of the name Isaak (alternatively Isaac). [60] Jewboy United States: Young Jewish boys For a young Jewish male, originally young Jewish boys who sold counterfeit coins in 18th century London. [61] [62] Jidan Romania: Jews From jid, Romanian equivalent of yid. [63] Kike: United States: Jews
Antilegomena (from Greek ἀντιλεγόμενα) are written texts whose authenticity or value is disputed. [1] Eusebius in his Church History (c. 325) used the term for those Christian scriptures that were "disputed", literally "spoken against", in Early Christianity before the closure of the New Testament canon.
Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, Bantam Book: 2006 (ISBN 0-618-68000-4) (although not identified explicitly, the argument from religious experience is dismissed). Joseph Hinman, The Trace of God: A Rational Warrant for Belief (ISBN 978-0-9824087-3-5). William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, OUP: 2012 [1902] (ISBN 978-0199691647).
The extreme form of remez, sod, understands the Tanakh as an allegory for a mystical understanding of the universe and as a means for mystical communion with God; this approach is best known through Kabbalistic texts such as the Zohar. Traditionally, only Jews who have mastered the midrashic method and the corpus of halakha are encouraged to ...
The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld the decision of U.S. District Judge Daniel Crabtree, denying God's Storehouse's petition to quash an IRS summons issued to Kaw Valley Bank.
Its followers are free to follow any among the theistic, non-theistic or other traditions within Hinduism. Followers can pick or change to any philosophy or belief they fancy and worship any personal god or goddess in a manner they deem fit, given an unspoken but loud understanding that all paths are equally valid in their purest form.
Apatheism considers the question of the existence or nonexistence of deities to be fundamentally irrelevant in every way that matters. This position should not be understood as a skeptical position in a manner similar to that of, for example, atheists or agnostics who question the existence of deities or whether we can know anything about them.
The dispute began when the IRS audited the estate’s federal estate tax return and claimed that the estate “undervalued its assets” and owed an additional $700 million in taxes and penalties ...