Richard Samuelson writes about my recent column on the Hebrew term avodah zarah, â??foreign worshipâ?:
Your discussion [of rabbinic laws concerning paganism] raises a question. What exactly is the proper definition of the term â??paganâ?? Is paganism only a thing of the past? Peter Gay, the great historian of the Enlightenment, speaks in his books of â??modern paganism,â? and many elements of modern life in the West seem to be pagan, a repudiation of classic Jewish ethics that goes from the worship of God to the worship of nature. Or am I mistaken?
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