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“I still cannot understand why questioning the validity of the ‘new testament’ in addition to previous Divine Revelation is so shocking.”

I cannot understand why questioning the validity of anything related to Jews is automatically condemned as anti-Semitism. Jews generally – and, based upon what I have seen of your posts, you specifically – refuse to separate reasonable criticism of Jewish beliefs, actions, or politics from bigotry. (That is a rhetorical device: I actually understand it all too well; it is a convenient leftist tactic to silence any opposition.)

I opine that you are a hypocrite. You insist on the freedom to attack Christians on the basis of quoting the New Testament – whether Israel or Judaism is part of the thread or not. What if we were to extensively, repeatedly, gratuitously attack you (Jews collectively) on citation from the extra-Biblical Talmud (which is no part of the Law, Prophets, or Writings)? Or on the doctrine of Tikkun Olam? Or on any number of other issues? Would we be allowed to do so without being accused of some sort of bigotry? I think we both know the answer: No.

“FCOL, if some of you folks had been around back then you’d have all rejected it because at that time ‘that stuff’s not in the Bible.’”

You libeled all Christians by that categorical (“… you’d have all…”) assertion. I opine that also makes you a liar.

Unless you also assert the communist propaganda that Jesus never existed at all, then A) He was a undeniably a Jew, and B) All of his original disciples – who became known as Apostles – were also Jews. All. Of. Them.

Obviously none of his actual Jewish followers who were “around back then” rejected his teachings even though they were “not in the Bible,” as you categorically asserted. If they did not do so, then it is absolutely reasonable to assume that some, perhaps many, Christians of today would also not have done so – which makes your assertion a lie.

You are essentially bragging in this post that you are celebrating twenty years of operating as a militant toll, and of being a specially privileged person, and of being part of a specially privileged group, on this forum.

I am not a troll. Though I have definite concerns about the socio-political influence of atheistic, leftist Jews, both in Israel and in America, I do not militantly seek out threads to invade and attack others in pursuit of a monomaniacal obsession.

I consider you egregiously obnoxious, and I generally avoid you, but you have gone out of your way to once again attack all Christians for citing the New Testament, so I am responding to that attack. You started it, not I.

In case it is not obvious, I do not congratulate you on this anniversary. I do not congratulate trolls for being trolls.

I took Hebrew at a secular university. I was the only Gentile. The class was otherwise exclusively Jews, all of whom who had grown up in the culture of Judaism, and about half of whom who had lived for a time in Kibbutzim.

The teacher was a native Israeli from outside Tel Aviv; she was a practicing Orthodox Jew; she was also a veteran of Israel’s wars.

She appreciated having me in the class. She used the Old Testament (and she used that name, by the bye) extensively to teach, since Hebrew was largely a static language for two thousand years, and modern Hebrew is essentially derived from the Bible; I knew the passages – the persons, the stories, the meanings – far better than any of the Jews in the class. She enjoyed having at least one person who readily understood her. Unlike you, she was a genuinely respectful person. I had no problem with her.