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From: jho@ihuxn.UUCP (Yosi Hoshen)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: To Yosi Hoshen re. Anti-Mormon T.V. program
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Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 14:16:45 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  7 14:16:45 1985
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Dear Ken Arndt,

You seem to have some questions regarding my motives/intentions
/beliefs/sources for my posting. So let me clarify some of them.

>I'm sure that there is an old Hebrew saying that describes every situation,
>thanks for one more for my bag.  The Jews are a people who are true 'word
>smiths', perhaps because of the place the 'word' has in their traditions.
>Seen the book, Joys of Yiddish? [ARNDT]

I have used the Hebrew saying "The camel does not see its hump" to
describe the fundamentalists' attitude towards the Mormons.  The
producers of the anti-Mormon propaganda piece titled "The GodMakers"
charged that Mormons cannot prove their claims.  I thought
that this is a rather ludicrous  charge, since the  fundamentalists
are not more successful in proving their claims.  I don't think
that the above Hebrew Saying is derived  from Yiddish.  It
is more likely originated from Arabic.

>By the way, can you as a Hebrew 'prove your religion'?  Just thought I'd ask.
>
>I find it just a bit ironic for a Jew to look askance at someone who holds
>their(their) religion to be the 'true' one and others to be false.  Don't 
>you????

My dear Arndt where did you get the notion that I have a religion?
Or that I hold the Jewish religion to be 'true'.  I am Jewish,
but I don't consider the Jewish religion to be true.  (I don't understand
what the word true means).  Until proven otherwise, I consider the Jewish
religion, Christianity, Mormonism, Catholicism, Helenism, etc to be
a form of superstition, and deities such as Jehovah, Zeus, Odin, 
(and let us not forget Ubizmo) creatures of the human imagination.  
I see no more evidence for the existence of the above gods than evidence
for fairy tale creatures such as the Wizard of Oz.  My only
objections are to religious and anti-religious coercion and intolerance.
If the GodMaker program was produced by Jews, Moslems, Ubizmoists, 
or Atheists, I would be just as critical.
-- 

Yosi Hoshen, Bell Laboratories
Naperville, Illinois, (312)-979-7321, Mail: ihnp4!ihuxn!jho