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Ask Questions Later

In God we hope

On the eve of 5782, it's time to ask the obvious: If everything wondrous requires a creator, what created the creator? Let us seek non-infantile answers.

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Dan Perry
Sep 05, 2021
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After a few weeks in Cairo, the question finally arrived from a local fellow friendly enough to be accosting strangers at the bar at Khaled’s and liberal enough to be drinking exorbitantly overpriced whiskey: What is your religion?

I could have opted for the convenient lie and replied that I am Jewish. But I’m a secular Jew with no religio…

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