[Paradox]

Liberalism has ruined Judaism.

[Littlejon]

My wife was good friends with a Jewish girl in college, and both were in each others' weddings. It always amazed me at how paranoid her family was that right-wing Christians were out to get them, but rarely even acknowledged the most obvious forms of anti-semitism they faced. I will never forget their disdain for Newt Gingrich and how scared they were when conservatives took over in 1994. At this girl's 21st birthday party, I overheard her mother and several of her friends talking about how the Christians in congress were going to force them to pray to Jesus in schools and remove their Jewish heritage. Now we see well-known liberals trashing Jews and doing more to disparage them than anything Christians ever dreamed of.

Of course, no one bats an eye at the way Hollyweird disparages Christians or how ridiculous they have been portrayed over the years. Glad to see at least one Jewish leader realizing that Hollyweird's depravity has no boundaries!

[joesnuffy]

I think it was atheism and paganism that ruined Judaism. (assuming it is ruined)

Since it was the covenant between Abram (the child of Baal worshipers) and God that he became Abraham the father of Israel and Judaism.

There were no Jews until the pagan Abram came face to face with with the Almighty One
and thereby became a Jew.

There are those who survive great tragedy and give God thanks for bringing them through (though they also mourn the loss of loved ones) like Job...

....And there are those who having survived great tragedy, turn their backs on God... saying that if God is love.. then how can he allow such tragedy to occur to those who follow Him..

Therefore He is either not what He says He is..or He does not exist at all..

If He does not exist...and never has...and is only a childish fairytale...then they can and do make fun of those they consider foolish or silly for an elaborate culture based upon nothingness..

The truth is they lack even a modicum of respect for others...and they love to poke fun and make lots of money doing it...the more vile it is..the more people laugh and pay for it..they call it humor..and they laugh all the way to the bank...

I don't know how much damage it does to the culture or merely reflect how damaged the culture is... perhaps a dynamic of both...

imo

[EveningStar]

Liberalism has ruined Judaism.

Dennis Prager has said that liberalism has replaced Judaism as the liberal Jew's religion of choice.

[Paved Paradise]

All I can say is WOW. Major WOW. What an article -