[Red Badger]

Do you really believe that? In my experience when a Jew embraces Christianity the only people who continue to respect their Jewishness are Christians and other Jews who embraced Christianity

Yes, I really believe that. And yes, you are correct that other Jews sometimes do not recognize the converts Jewishness. But that is the other Jews' problem, not the converts' problem. You are a Jew in the heart and that's what's important to God. Sure, there will be conflicts within the Jewish community over the convert's Jewishness, but when has this not been so? It will always be so until Jesus' return proves to them otherwise............

[goldstategop]

I don't agree with her its necessary for any one to convert to Christianity - or Islam to believe in God. All one has to do is believe in God and follow His teachings. The real problem isn't that Jews haven't converted. The real problem is the decline of faith in God in the West.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[papertyger]

And yes, you are correct that other Jews sometimes do not recognize the converts Jewishness. But that is the other Jews' problem, not the converts' problem.

Then how is it that you maintain your addition to Ann's comment would have mitigated the provocation? She certainly didn't get objections from the Jews who are also Christian.

[dervish]

“other Jews sometimes do not recognize the converts Jewishness”

Wrong. Jews recognize them as apostates. One cannot become un Jewish, to which one has either been born or converted, by adopting another religion.

And that is no more insulting than Coulter’s comments that Jews lack spiritual perfection that Christians have.

Maimonedes Thirteen Principles are as central to Jews as Jesus is to Christians.