God Against the Gods
“The Israelites are commanded by God not only to respect and protect the “stranger”—a word that refers to anyone who does not belong to the Chosen People—but to love him, too. “The stranger who settles with you in your land shall be treated as the native-born among you,” says Moses in the Book of Leviticus, uttering the very first biblical expression of the “golden rule” that was later embraced by Jesus of Nazareth. “You shall love him as a man like yourself because you were strangers in the lan...d of Egypt.”1Here we find the deeply empathetic teaching that prompts us to characterize Judaism, Christianity and Islam as “ethical monotheism.” Over the centuries and millennia that have passed since these words were first recorded in the Bible, all three of the great monotheisms have struggled to put them into practice. And the majority of Jews, Christians and Muslims in the modern world embrace the values of respect, toleration and compassion that can be found in their sacred texts.MoreLess
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