The Atlantic: “How the Six-Day War Transformed Religion”

The Atlantic: “How the Six-Day War Transformed Religion” June 7, 2017

 

J'lem Center BYU
BYU’s Jerusalem Center, as seen from below (in the Kidron Valley)

 

Note the subtitle:  “Six perspectives on how the 1967 Arab-Israeli conflict changed Islam, Judaism, Christianity, and Mormonism.”

 

The 1967 “Six-Day War” between Israel and its Arab neighbors — the fiftieth anniversary of which falls this very week — has had an enormous and still-vivid impact on the region.

 

What impact, if any, did it have on religions in the area and in the United States?

 

I’m happy that we’re included, of course, and I don’t want to seem ungrateful or churlish, but, really, the list “Islam, Judaism, Christianity, and Mormonism” makes me think just a bit of a list reading “mammals, reptiles, fish, and salmon,” or “California, Wisconsin, Texas, and San Antonio.”

 

In any event, it’s an interesting piece:

 

“How the Six-Day War Transformed Religion”

 

Posted from Richmond, Virginia

 

 


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