Christianity has made its peace with Original Sin. It has its own way of salvation. Jehovah's Witnesses have drawn out the series of predestination of Calvinism to the mathematical exactitude of predicting that precisely 184,000 saints will be saved and everybody else will be doomed. We Jews have resigned ourselves to the idea that es iz shver tzu zein a yid. -Rabbi Jacob Chinitz
“Between 1305 and the early 1800’s. the House of Taxis ran a form of pony express service all over Europe…. Its couriers clad in blue and silver uniforms, crisscrossed the continent carrying messages between princes and generals, merchants and money lenders.” –Alvin Toffler, The Third Wave We may think we are the first generation consumed by rapid communication but we are not. Throughout our history it has been a priority. Of course, now in the 21 st century we must ask: are we better or worse for it?
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