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“On 20 March 1982, on the occasion of the Iranian new year, Khomeini announced that ‘as a special favour’ schoolboys between the ages of 12 and 18 years would be allowed to join the Basij and to fight for their country. Consequently scores of youths volunteered for action and were hastily recruited and provided with ‘Passports to Paradise’, as the admission forms were called. They were then given rudimentary military training, of a week or so, by the Pasdaran, and sent to the front where many of them ‘martyred’ themselves.”
― The Iran–Iraq War 1980–1988
― The Iran–Iraq War 1980–1988
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
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“Its main thesis is that not only the emerging Christianity drew on contemporary Judaism but that rabbinic Judaism, too, tapped into ideas and concepts of Christianity to shape its own identity; that, far from being forever frozen in ingrained hostility, the two sister religions engaged in a profound interaction during late antiquity.”
― The Jewish Jesus: How Judaism and Christianity Shaped Each Other
― The Jewish Jesus: How Judaism and Christianity Shaped Each Other
“Faith, without action, is no faith at all. Love, without sacrifice, is no love at all.”
― The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler
― The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler
“Hebrews 10:35 says, So don’t throw away that courage of yours, which carries with it such a great reward.”
― A Life for God: A Rabbi’s Analysis of Life, the Cross, and Eternity
― A Life for God: A Rabbi’s Analysis of Life, the Cross, and Eternity
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