[Askel5]

That's one reason I was so curious as to musial through those and other links.

It's Yiddish that tends to borrow here and there ... even from the Latin. "Bensch" similar to "benediction", etc.

But the Hebrew citation to which most of these seemed to allude is the "fool" refence in Jerome, I think, where "fool" is one who fails to apprehend or who rejects God.

Makes sense. Religion, after all, comes from religare (I think) ... to "connect". And that's what religion does, it connects all. (Save for protestants who divide faith from reason or heretics -- like Mohammed -- who deconstruct or any who would pretend at a "to each his own" tolerance that really is a compartmentalization by which all men are not equal to reaching enduring Truth together.)

I think this is one reason compartmentalization and deconstruction are absolutely essential for atheists and other "fools". =)

[general_re]

Makes sense. Religion, after all, comes from religare (I think) ... to "connect".

Quite so - "to bind" is perhaps a better rendering.

Anyway, the world is full of people who would put faith and reason at odds - not all of them are athiests, as you note ;)