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To: SkyPilot
Prayer in schools, religious monuments at courthouses. Jews are inherently uncomfortable with anything that crosses the line between church and state and the GOP has been out front on this issue every step of the way.

Jewish theology is compatible with state socialism. "Tikkun Olam" is a commandment to "heal the world." Many Jews interpret that as a directive to support the welfare state.
16 posted on 11/01/2004 2:38:44 PM PST by HostileTerritory
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To: HostileTerritory
Prayer in schools, religious monuments at courthouses.

Smart Jewish parents (or those that can at least afford it) send their children to private school. That way they do not have to worry about anyone asking their kids to say a Christian prayer.

24 posted on 11/01/2004 2:49:22 PM PST by Bella_Bru (It's for the children = It takes a village)
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To: HostileTerritory

see "The Rise of Tikkun Olam Paganism" by Steven Plaut

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/813507/posts


25 posted on 11/01/2004 2:52:11 PM PST by hlmencken3 (Ben Yishai Chai Vekaiyam!)
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To: HostileTerritory

I wonder why coerceing tax money(in the form of US foreign aid) to give to Israel is not seen as a violation of the strict separation of church and state from the perspective of liberal Jews....hmmmmmm...


34 posted on 11/01/2004 2:58:50 PM PST by NATIVEDAUGHTER
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To: HostileTerritory
Prayer in schools, religious monuments at courthouses. Jews are inherently uncomfortable with anything that crosses the line between church and state and the GOP has been out front on this issue every step of the way.

That is so because the majority of the American Jewish community are secularists (or members of phoney "branches") who know nothing about their own faith. What everyone on every side of the issue seems to forget is that the people who invaded 'Eretz Kena`an, killed the pagan inhabitants, pulled down their altars, and created a Theocracy in which no Jew had the "right" to practice another religion, were JEWS, not chr*stians. Nowadays people see Jews only as an oppressed, exiled "minority" group that can survive only under a "Voltaireocracy." And chr*stians who refuse to read the Book of Joshua, who continue to think they invented Theocracy, and who think Jews have never been anything but corrosive "troublemakers" are just as stupid.

There is a legitimate reason for opposing chr*stianity, but it is because it is a false religion, not for French "enlightenment" reasons.

Jewish theology is compatible with state socialism. "Tikkun Olam" is a commandment to "heal the world." Many Jews interpret that as a directive to support the welfare state.

Since "state socialism" in and of itself has very little do to with theological or religious issues, any theology can be compatible with it (for example, C. S. Lewis said that if the early chr*stians had created a state it would probably have been a socialist state with very prudish morals). The pronouncments of J*sus in the "new testament" about the poor are as socialistic as anything in the TaNa"KH or Talmud. And of course there's the fact that outside the United States chr*stian rightists tend to look on free enterprise as a sort of radical proto-Marxism and champion instead pre-capitalist forms of socialism such as distributivism (again, something pilfered from the "old testament" which chr*stians think they invented).

All this confusion will be dispelled once Israel is united under authentic Torah and the ancient sacrificial service is being performed once again in the Holy Temple. Then liberal Jews and anti-Semitic chr*stians can both cry in each other's arms. And the sooner the better!!!

38 posted on 11/01/2004 3:10:36 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Unity among the wicked is bad for them and bad for the world.)
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To: HostileTerritory
notice the irony of what you said.
Traditional religion in the politics is evil, but socialism based on religious precepts is good.
Essentially this is deracinated Jewish socialism at work. They are guilty for doing well and for not living up to Jewish law.
I pity many of my coreligionists.
51 posted on 11/01/2004 4:21:58 PM PST by rmlew (Copperheads and Peaceniks beware! Sedition is a crime.)
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To: HostileTerritory
Jewish theology is compatible with state socialism. "Tikkun Olam" is a commandment to "heal the world." Many Jews interpret that as a directive to support the welfare state.

With all due respect, that is patent nonsense. The liberal Jews are--for the most part--quite secular. To think that the Hollywood and West End Ave. Jewish crowds in NYC look for commandments to follow is just silly. (I'm sure you're not silly--just this observation).

79 posted on 11/02/2004 9:55:36 AM PST by Pharmboy (History's greatest agent for freedom: The US Armed Forces)
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