Slow your roll. You can include those of your own house in your equation.
THREE the hard way.
Posted on 06/05/2004 12:13:36 AM PDT by rdb3
It's amazing how blacks want to adopt Islam, Judaism, everything except the one Savior who died and rose for them.
Slow your roll. You can include those of your own house in your equation.
THREE the hard way.
Um, the article was about BLACKS. Now if the article was about orphan Eskimos, I would have said that. Pay attention to the headlines.
As I said, you can include those of your own house in your equation. Singling us out for what really is a universal calling is less than kosher (no pun intended).
In other words, calling out black people for something that your own kind is equally failing to do is hypocritical. Talking about Christ is universal, and can in no way be whittled down to a single race. That doesn't work.
THREE the hard way.
The majority of the black people I know are practicing Christians, and the majority of the black churches around here seem to stay much busier than the mainstream or white churches do.
Islam was a fad in this area for a while, but it seems to have largely either died or gone quiet, not sure which, since 9/11.
Works for me. Anyone who wants to join our flock, IMO, is welcome. Judaism is a joyous, life-affirming religion. And the food is good. :)
Or Ethiopian immigrants who have no need to convert as their pedigree goes all the way back.
I remember reading Sammy Davis Jr's bio when it came out. I thought his motivation for converting to Judaism resulted more from his desire to fit in with the entertainment establishment, than from ideology. Ditto for his marriage to a Caucasian wife, who he later dumped when it became politically incorrect for Blacks to marry white--and he then married a Black woman.
Nel Carter also... who used to appear on Israeli Sesame Street and also has a hewbrew alef-bet video tape for children.
Yeah - kinda like "African-American". They're still Americans but think the hyphen entitles them to some sort of extra consideration or respect. I'll wait for the hyphen on this one.
Your original comment:>Also, what is "black Judaism"? Judaism is Judaism, right?
Let me clarify - I believe your comment is non-intuitive in as much as you believe race never factors into religion. I am assuming you are black and not Jewish. As a counter-example, why do some Christian churches seem to self-segregate into black and white in this country (for example, AME)? I don't know, myself. Yes, I guess in a utopian society things might not break down this way. I am sorry if I hit a raw nerve of yours.
Making broad generalities about any race (in this case singling-out white people) is offensive to me. In the future, please don't do this.
The Carribean members of the synagogue are probably a mixture of Afro-Carribean and Sephardic, who have retained Jewish traditions. Although marranos came with the Portugese and Spanish colonists, Sephardic Jews who had no worries about hiding their faith came with the English and Dutch.
THREE the hard way.
The movement goes back about a century, and I’ve seen it origins described as being both in blacks “rediscovering” their Hebraic roots and the meaning of of previously unknown customs, and in blacks rejecting Christianity as the religion of slavery.
You’ll note in the article that their acceptance by the Jewish community is sometimes problematical. I believe the Congregation mentioned here is pretty conventional in following the Jewish faith, and shouldn’t be confused with groups like the Black Hebrew Israelites. There’s no direct connection to Ethiopian Jews as a few have suggested.
History of Beth Shalom B'nai Zaken
Hope you're right. A few years ago---just before 9/11---I worked as a ghostwriter for a prominent black "televangelist" who was called by God to wake up the black church against the dangers of black Muslims and Islam.
WOW!!!!!
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