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To: Billy the Mountain
The Talmud is a central text of mainstream Judaism which says some very unpleasant things about my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

So you claim.

You can whitewash it away by saying that is only a collection of debates, however the discussions about Jesus Christ are not in that context.

That's the only context the Talmud has.

There are plenty of translations of the Talmud.

No, there aren't. If there are "plenty" please cite 5.

All of them contain the same basic comments when discussing Christ.

Bold claim. Why don't you find a passage in the Talmud you consider to be blasphemous toward Jesus, and cite it in 5 separate translations.

A Christian only needs to see the blasphemy of Jesus Christ once to know that there is great antipathy towards him.

The issue here is what is actually seen. Anyone can go on the Internet and find quotes from any neo-Nazi site they like purporting to be Talmud passages. How many Christians have bothered to even read the original? Despite your magisterial tone, I can tell you certainly haven't.

Even the Muslims don't speak about Christ in such a manner.

The theology of Islam says that Jesus was a lesser prophet whose role was to proclaim the great prophet Mohammed. This was part of Mohammed's conversion strategy: absorb Abraham, Moses and Jesus into his narrative in order to convince Jews and Christians to follow him. So Islam speaks sweetly about Jesus, but in doing so calls all Christians liars who have betrayed Jesus and diminishes Jesus into a mere man subordinate to Mohammed. Jews do not see conversion of all Christians to Judaism as one of the purposes of their religion.

126 posted on 10/03/2010 10:33:18 AM PDT by wideawake
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