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True, but for some reason they seem completely blind to that fact.

You know the reason. They were raised to worship a dead man on a cross.

There's a little more to it than that. Fundamentalist Protestants (which you probably have very few of in your country) paint themselves into a corner where chrstianity simply has to be true or else G-d is honor bound to eternally damn every single human being who will ever live. This is why historical chrstianity (Catholicism, Orthodoxy, etc.) to them is no different from Judaism: they all insist on human participation whereas Fundamentalist Protestantism insists on salvation via legal loophole and nothing else.

As to why the more ancient chrstians are so addicted to the religion, I honestly can't say. Growing up a Fundamentalist Protestant, the only difference I've ever seen in the Jewish ceremonial and the chrstian one is that the former is explicitly from G-d and the latter was made up by people. But Catholics/Orthodox nevertheless seem to think that the latter somehow is "self-evidently" an improvement over the former--which is impossible.

Fun fact: Catholics and Orthodox attack us for "thinking we don't need Chr*st." Yet Fundamentalist Protestants attack them for the same thing because they (Catholics and Orthodox) have to have their "salvation" mediated to them through secondary instrumentalities. To Fundamentalist Protestants, belief in secondary instrumentalities is simply another form of idolatry.

You and I know how hard it was to get rid of christianity.

And even when you get rid of it you're still stuck with it. It is no accident that the sick, materialistic "west" coincides with what used to be "chrstendom." The "west" went from chrstian "theocracy" to an inverted chrstian "theocracy" (where all positions are determined by simply taking the opposite stance to the traditional chrstian ones in all areas). The Left rebels against chrstianity because it's the only religion it takes seriously. Members of other religions to them are just more "dissidents" and rebels, no different than homosexuals.

No wonder a Torah observant Gentile is as honorable as a proper Jewish High Priest who served in the Holy Temple. We deserve it.

Unfortunately, I ain't there yet. I still have a lot of problems I'm trying to work through. Pirqei-'Avot says if one's "wisdom" exceeds ones good deeds one's "wisdom" will not stand. Unfortunately, I'm more light than heat. But I tell myself it's better than doing absolutely nothing.

Very little more obnoxiously evangelical than an ex-Christian.

Thanks once against for proving Scripture correct:

“For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, 5and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, 6and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt. 7For land that has drunk the rain that often falls on it, and produces a crop useful to those for whose sake it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God. 8But if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed, and its end is to be burned.”

You are right. There are very few Fundamentalist Protestants in my country. Thanks for the information. I know very little about Fundamentalist Protestants (except for the sola scriptura bull).

> Unfortunately, I ain’t there yet. I still have a lot of problems I’m trying to work through. Pirqei-’Avot says if one’s “wisdom” exceeds ones good deeds one’s “wisdom” will not stand. Unfortunately, I’m more light than heat. But I tell myself it’s better than doing absolutely nothing.

We can only do our best. Pirqei-’Avot is not Law. Whatever it says is secondary.