http://nypost.com/2015/05/24/high-wire-strewn-through-city-lets-jews-keep-the-faith/

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3627664&forum_id=2#33407804)

defend this retardation DBG

this is superstitious african witch doctor shit

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3627664&forum_id=2#33409159)

you enter into a special covenant with no less than the supreme being

then you hire lawyers (rabbis) and spend the next 3000 years trying to bust His balls on every fucking thing that wasnt specified in enough detail

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3627664&forum_id=2#33414964)

Btw, the Torah is trash.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3627664&forum_id=2#33404464)

Further, the Jewish religion as practiced and believed by Orthodox Jews is nonsensical and simplistically rule-oriented.

Same problem with Islam.

That being said, reformed Judaism is basically the best religion short of secular Unitarianism.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3627664&forum_id=2#33404622)

the reform movement started in europe and completely died out well before immigration to the us. it just doesnt work.

judaism only works if it's tribal.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3627664&forum_id=2#33404635)

it's not actually derived from that sort of epistemology at all; it's more like there is a universe of potential actions that can be undertaken by humans, and to be "faithful" is to make the effort to delimit those actions to a set of parameters which are sufficiently byzantine to distinguish the faithful from the others.

and they're aware of this. it's not something they'd be shocked by; it's actually the point. and that's how you maintain a coherent community across time.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3627664&forum_id=2#33404660)

So maybe that's true as a description of the religion, but then of course you are conceding it's not even a belief system but just a group of people.

I understand that the Orthos actually believe that it makes religious sense to subvert the obvious intent and purpose of a God-command by figuring out loopholes that don't even literally work in many cases.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3627664&forum_id=2#33404726)

Christianity bears the theological burden of incorporating all of the Old Testament's doctrine of God, and merging it with the far more elaborate and complex Trinitarian theology. Or all of the Old Testament's legal and ethical theory, and merging it with a much more elevated morality not simply of external obedience but of an internally changed will.

In other words, Christianity has to account for the ENTIRE foundation of everything Judaism is concerned with, and then on top of that find ways of making that compatible with - while still distinguishing it from - the more profound truths of Christianity.

If anyone disputes this, please feel free to respond and I will show why you're wrong. Thank.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3627664&forum_id=2#33407791)

Start with language barrier and this absurd context for garbage preachment-> build worldview.

LJL

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3627664&forum_id=2#33413236)