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To: Revolting cat!

There is a tradition in Judaism that when writing God’s name on something that can be destroyed, it should be altered in such a way that it cannot be defaced or destroyed, either by accident or on purpose. Defacing the name of G-d would be taking it in vain.

I would also be careful of insulting Jewish practices. The Jews kept the light of G-d alive through centuries of persecution. First, we tried to enslave them. Then we attempted to conquer the land G-d gave them. Finally we succeeded by getting them to worship idols(*). After we successfully took them from G-d, we conquered them and scattered the ten tribes of the Northern Kingdom. Eventually we took the Southern Kingdom and destroyed G-d’s House and took them out of the land. When we allowed them back in, we placed people there to try and trick and deceive the Jews. While we allowed them to rebuild the Temple, it lacked the splendor Solomon’s Temple had. During the Seleucid Kingdom, we desecrated the Temple, abrogated their laws, and denied them the seal of the Covenant (bris). Then Jesus came along and said that while most of what they believed was rightly ordered, it was wrong. While they persecuted the Church(^) for a short period of time, it is nothing compared to the centuries of persecution they had been subjected to. Then when they were fed up with Rome and decided to revolt, we chose to ignore them and stay out of the conflict. The Temple was physically destroyed. After we conquered the Roman Empire, we did oppress and persecute them, sometimes for fun and sport, other times out of Malice. When we took the Holy Land from the Muslims, we massacred Jews. Then after several more centuries of persecution, certain people decided enough was not enough and attempted to wipe the Jews off the face of the Earth.

I am sure G-d appreciates that after 3+ millennia of persecution, the Jews still try to be faithful to their religion.

(*) The idols referred to here are idols that by their very nature are opposed to G-d.
(^) Before claiming they crucified Jesus, we all did by our sins.


115 posted on 07/28/2013 7:49:05 PM PDT by ronnietherocket3
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To: ronnietherocket3; Elsie; jimrob

I don’t need these lectures, flames and insults. Let it be G=d, and J*sus, or whatevah. As I said earlier, I only come here for the jokes, and as JimRob said on this thread “I don’t understand the bickering on this forum between Catholics and protestants”, which is exactly what’s motivated me entering these religious threads, that and nothing else, but somehow or another I managed to get myself in the middle of these silly rotten food fights.


148 posted on 07/28/2013 8:23:44 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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