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>> I am a Noachide. <<

I’m not familar with the use of Noachide as a noun. I know it to mean referring to the seven laws of Noah, as in “the Noachide covenant.” I do not find a wikipedia entry of any such religion. Are you a practitioner of B’nei Noach?

If so, then you hold that non-Jews aren’t bound to the laws of Moses, but are bound to the laws of Noah. Ceratinly, the Catholic Church has always fervently upheld the Noachide laws*. What beef do you then have against the Catholic Church not upholding the entirety of the Talmud? Or did you not mean that you follow the B’nei Noach?

(*In truth, I’ve never heard the seventh law preached on at mass, but then again, it seems so unthinkable... It sorta seems like preaching that law would be akin to preaching, “thou shall not jam a tuning fork up your nose, and pour horseradish in the open wound.”)

>> The hyphen is out of reverence...Instead it seems to have been mostly misunderstood for the nine years I’ve been here. <<

And, yet, oddly you persist. And why do you not write “Christian”? You haven’t explained.

>> You mean aside from insisting it was adapted from Babylonian and Canaanite paganism? :-) <<

I mean support your assertion that Catholics rip on the Talmud.

>> Have you never considered how the charges and accusations of protestantism merely mirror what Catholics and Orthodox have always said about Jewish rituals, commandments, and oral traditions? <<

No, I didn’t. In fact, I’ve asked you to demonstrate that and you haven’t.

>> Protestantism was risen up by G-d to give Catholicism/Orthodoxy a taste of its own medicine. How do you like it? <<

Thank God he isn’t like you. I don’t believe God rises up evil to give people “a taste of their own medicine.”

If so, then you hold that non-Jews aren’t bound to the laws of Moses, but are bound to the laws of Noah.

Yes, but Jews are bound by the Holy Torah. It will never be superseded by anything. It is precisely this which the liturgical churches deny. They insist that Jews must no longer observe the mitzvot of the Torah. Are you really so dense that you don't see any similarity between this attitude and that of Protestantism toward your own rituals? People who try to talk the Jews out of Torah observance have no business whining about the antinomianism of Protestantism.

And, yet, oddly you persist. And why do you not write “Christian”? You haven’t explained.

I did explain, in the very section of my post which you excerpt. You obviously didn't read it very well.

I mean support your assertion that Catholics rip on the Talmud.

Catholic and Orthodox chr*stians have the same attitude towards the Talmud that Fundamentalist Protestants have toward the Church Fathers. Until Catholics and Orthodox accept the Talmud they have no business putting down Protestants for not accepting the authority of the Church Fathers.

Have you never considered how the charges and accusations of protestantism merely mirror what Catholics and Orthodox have always said about Jewish rituals, commandments, and oral traditions?

No, I didn’t. In fact, I’ve asked you to demonstrate that and you haven’t.

You demonstrated it yourself in your initial answer to me in which you referred to some ancient chr*stians as "Judaizers." If they had no business practicing Jewish rituals, you most certainly have no business practicing post-Biblical chr*stian ones.

Thank God he isn’t like you. I don’t believe God rises up evil to give people “a taste of their own medicine.”

In other words you don't believe in the Biblical G-d. At least you're honest.