Atheist professor’s home vandalized; knife, hate note left at scene

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Graffiti with likely mistaken reference to Bible passage on manna sprayed on private home in Jerusalem’s German Colony

By Raoul Wootliff
January 21, 2016, 12:03 pm

The Jerusalem home of a prominent Israeli ethicist and atheist philosopher was vandalized overnight Wednesday in an apparent hate crime carried out by Jewish extremists.

Graffiti depicting a Star of David and references to biblical passages were sprayed on the fence around the house of Prof. Yaakov Malkin, director of Tmura, the International Institute for Humanistic Secular Judaism.

An envelope containing a threatening letter and a knife branded with a further biblical reference were also found at the scene, according to police.

Malkin, 89, is a well-known writer and educator, espousing an ethical and humanist approach to Judaism and religion. As well as serving as the academic director for Tmura, Malkin is the chief editor of Free Judaism, a journal for cultural Judaism, which he founded in 1995. He is the author of a number of influential atheist works including “Judaism Without God? Judaism as Culture and the Bible as Literature.”

http://www.timesofisrael.com/atheist-professors-home-vandalized-knife-hate-note-left-at-scene/

[TexasProgresive]

1. What is the motivation of idiots who think they need to protect God?

I think it is a case of bizarre transference, where the person believes they are being attacked personally. They have a really weak faith, if they have faith at all.

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2. They're idiots too. If they're not mispelling words, they're misquoting scriptures.

[longship]

3. You know, that's the funny thing.

They are so damned insecure about their beliefs.

Too bad Hitch is gone. I miss him.

[safeinOhio]

4. Could we put all the fundies of

all religions together in a big locked cage. A fight to the death with the last one standing the winner.

Fundamentalist are not fun and are mental.