A truly wise and great man.
Who teaches that Jesus Christ was the magician fraud son of a prostitute and is now burning in Hell.
Oh my . . . right where traditionalist Catholics put Martin Luther. As Lloyd Nolan used to say, "Ouch!"
Why should an Orthodox rabbi have a higher opinion of J*sus than Catholics have of Luther? After all, chrstianity is to Judaism as Protestantism is to Catholicism. In fact, your own argument is one against the immemorial Oral Sinaitic Tradition. You doubtless believe in "sola scriptura" for Judaism.
I couldn't find anything about this individual having rejected the Talmud as being authoritative so he is by definition both anti-Christ and anti-Christian.
Are you going to renounce the church fathers or the Summa because it offends a newer religion (Protestantism)? And by the way--the Talmud is a multivolume work that takes an entire lifetime to study. It is the Oral Torah frozen into a fixed form at a certain time in history. Yes, it is anti-chrstianity just as the church fathers and Summa are anti-Protestant. But the thousands and thousands and thousands of pages do not focus on chrstianity (nor does it give instructions for destroying "western civilization" by making dirty movies). The people who scream about "the Talmud unmasked" are out-and-out anti-Semites. It appears, Rashie, that when you left Lutheranism a little of Luther came with you.
Is that what passes for being "wise and great" these days?
Is screaming about the "chr*st-hating Talmud" and "anti-chr*st Jews" really what passes for "conservatism" on Free Republic these days? Unlike many Catholics, the Rebbe believed that Genesis was actual history.
Kindly remember this when some "Prot" attacks one of your leading lights.
Does the Talmud teach a belief in the existence of the burning-forever kind of Roman Hell? Granted, I haven’t gotten far with the Oral side, but I haven’t seen that, yet.
Thank you for the ping.
The words of the Rebbe are inspiring and thought provoking.
My only thoughts on the posts after this- is that there are no ‘winners’ in religious debates. Having done my share of argumentation here, I have wasted a good deal of bandwith in the process. Often, the insults fly after many posts out of great frustration. After a while I just avoided these conflicts between FReepers as we conservatives have many other clear and present dangers to worry about.
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Giving the hair-raising damnations Christian sling at each other, it may not be as alarming as it seems. Fortunately, Jew-hate makes for a bad web site, and a lot of web site operators understand that. That might be as much as can be hoped.