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To: boatbums
Re your post 59 (which I have just found).

I do wish you could criticize the Noachide position without resorting to quoting an anti-Semitic web site.

Have you ever read the Hebrew Bible? You realize that the people weren't chrstians, right? They didn't go around handing out tracts to each other or listening to Blackwoods Brothers records. Have you noticed that the society authorized by the Hebrew Bible is a Theocracy with "liberal application of the death penalty?" (Not really, because the criteria for actually executing the death penalty made it very difficult, but nevertheless there were a wide swath of sins that were punishable by death.)

You need to understand that Jews and Noachides believe that the religion practiced in the Hebrew Bible (not its "fulfillment" in the "new testament") is still the One True Religion. We look forward to the day when the Temple will stand again, the offerings will be made, a king will rule in Jerusalem, and all the ancient laws will be once again functional. And that means no "religious freedom" as understood by eighteenth century deists and rationalists.

How can anyone in one breath condemn Jews for being too liberal and wimpy and in the next claim they're bloodthirsty religious fanatics who want to put the fear of G-d into everyone? I for one sincerely hope they get around to the latter soon, because I'm tired of "Jewish liberalism!" And if Judaism is the True Religion, it cannot be judged by any standard external to itself. No religion that claims to be true can allow itself to be judged by standards outside itself. That's like judging G-d!

And Shmuley Boteach is not a standard Chassidic Jew. He is a disgusting liberal who wouldn't force morality on a flea. You may have a lot of things to worry about, but the only thing you have to worry about from Shmuley Boteach is that he'll launch a tirade against religious fundamentalists.

83 posted on 07/21/2016 8:22:44 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Sof davar hakol nishma`; 'et-ha'Eloqim yera' ve'et-mitzvotayv shemor, ki-zeh kol-ha'adam.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator
I do wish you could criticize the Noachide position without resorting to quoting an anti-Semitic web site.

How many times have you been asked to post something explaining it? Why not point out what this "anti-Semitic" site gets wrong instead?

106 posted on 07/21/2016 8:36:20 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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