An Abridged Dictionary of World Religion

Aaron

Israel’s first priest, the worthy brother of Moses, and the perfect prototype of our modern priests. He worshipped, and taught others how to worship, the golden calf, in which his modern counterpart “men of the cloth” imitate fairly well. The Jewish people were punished for the stupidity of their clergy, to the tune of a [...]

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This is a translation of a translation of Paul d’Holbach’s brilliant satire Theologie Portative, or an abridged dictionary of the Christian religion from 1768. I’ll be going through it alphabetically from the manuscript, so the entries may seem out of order. Don’t fear. With around 700 definitions, it’ll take a little while to get through all of them, and to complicate things, I’ve decided to expand on the theme, adding new entries.

Much credit for the idea (and a lot of the translation) goes to my father, Yuli.

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