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  Judaism Basics Print Hulton Archive / Stringer/Hulton Archive/Getty Images By   Ariela Pelaia Updated on February 16, 2019 Satan is a character that appears in the belief systems of  many religions , including  Christianity  and  Islam . In Judaism "satan" is not a sentient being but a metaphor for the evil inclination – the  yetzer hara  – that exists in every person and tempts us to do wrong. Satan as a Metaphor for the Yetzer Hara The Hebrew word "satan" (שָּׂטָן) translates to "adversary" and comes from a Hebrew verb meaning "to oppose" or "to obstruct." In Jewish thought, one of the things Jews struggle against every day is the "evil inclination," also known as the  yetzer hara  (יֵצֶר הַרַע, from Genesis 6:5). The  yetzer hara  is not a force or a being, but rather refers to mankind's innate capacity for doing evil in the world. However, using the term satan to describe this impulse is not very common. On the other...

  FOLKLORE Black magic in Islam is a serious concern — and the holy writings offer numerous ways to negate magic jinn.   I’m torn. Sometimes I think there’s a power in belief. That just by acknowledging something’s existence, you’re giving it relevance, even substance. On the other hand, I know I can’t just force myself to not think about djinns while I’m in their lands. Heck, telling me not to think about something is pretty much guaranteeing it’ll be top of mind the entire time we’re in Fès. “ There’s even one to recite, ahem, before you have sex. So, I ultimately decided to investigate ways to protect yourself from djinns (also called jinns and, to most Westerners, genies). Not that I think we’re really in any danger — or that these superstitions will actually help prevent something bad from happening. But heck, after what happened last time , I figure it sure couldn’t hurt. Pages from the Iran Islam Temtem-e Hendi Pictorial Book on Talisman, Charm & Mysterious Scie...

Religion and implicit and explicit language Matthew Follow 12 min read · Mar 14, 2025 Many of the great psychologists have come to the conclusion that religions are true. Not in a literal sense, since this could hardly be proved or disproved by a psychologist, but true in a heuristic sense: in many people, religious belief is a psychologically integrating phenomenon. This should make a lot of sense, the symbols of religion are only “made up” in the sense that they are cultural symbols that emerge in every society in the history of behavioural modernity, and so they reflect the psychology, conscious and unconscious, from which they come. If we take Richard Dawkins’ claim that religions are simply “memes,” it seems also logical to connect their success or failure with their ability to function as — with another term of Dawkins’ — a kind of extended phenotype, something that provides societal cohesion, individual ordering of experience, and integration between the two. Through the lens of...