> Brad McCormick wrote:
>> OK. I practice what I preach. Don't follow the leader, follow the
>> audit trail:
>>
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4751319.stm
>>
>> Your move....
>
> Okay, I guess what's true for lawyers also applies to religious morons:
> "Good for nothing but capable of anything."
>
>
> http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1904953,00.html
>
> Rabbi orders maiming of dolls
>
> 26/03/2006 21:15 - (SA)
>
> Jerusalem - In a tough break for the children of Orthodox Jewish families,
> a former grand rabbi of Israel has urged parents to amputate their dolls to
> avoid the perils of idolatry.
>
> Basing the move on a Biblical ban on the possession of idols, Mordechai
> Eliyahu, a Sephardic rabbi, broadcast his edict on a religious radio
> station calling for an arm or a leg to be dismembered.
May I also obliquely, gingerly allude to a practice of
blood sucking practiced by some of the ultra
orthodox as part of the you-know-what ritual?
And may I restate my hypothesis that no people ever gets so
impoverished as to not be able to afford to practice
its cherished ritual mutilations?
\brad mccormick
>
> In the case of a teddy bear or other stuffed animals, the children will see
> their beloved toys lose an ear or an eye instead.
>
> "It is very important that these toys do not remain intact so as to remove
> the element of idolatry," said Eliyahu.
>
> His son, Shmuel Eliyahu, himself a rabbi in the northern town of Safed,
> said that it was inappropriate to own statues or dolls, even to play with
> or for artistic purposes.
>
> "They need to be amputated or at least altered," he said.
>
> Shmuel revealed that his father had forced one of his followers to snap off
> the ear of a replica of a statue of Moses by Michelangelo that he had
> bought at an exorbitant price.
>
> Religious edicts are not legally binding in Israel.
>
>
>
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