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To: NYC GOP Chick
As much as I agree with the substance of what the rabbis say, I am very uncomfortable with injecting religion into politics.

(And I say this as someone who recently served on the Board of Directors of an Orthodox shul.)

The Seven Noachide Laws are objectively binding on the entire non-Jewish portion of the human race. Non-Jews are even required to set up courts of law to enforce them. The "separation of religion and politics" is a modern, un-Jewish concept. It's a good ideological justification for getting the goyim to let Jews live in peace, but unfortunately in the past two hundred years many Jews seem to have gotten the mistaken idea that it's actually part of Judaism rather than a purely utilitarian position.

About three hundred years ago all Jews lived as a self-governing Theocratic community under the civil authority of the rabbinate. With moslems spreading sharia around, perhaps Jews should give some thought to returning to that polity.

34 posted on 06/29/2010 10:46:59 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Lakhen 'emor, hinni noten lo 'et-beriti shalom.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator
The Seven Noachide Laws are objectively binding on the entire non-Jewish portion of the human race. Non-Jews are even required to set up courts of law to enforce them. The "separation of religion and politics" is a modern, un-Jewish concept. It's a good ideological justification for getting the goyim to let Jews live in peace, but unfortunately in the past two hundred years many Jews seem to have gotten the mistaken idea that it's actually part of Judaism rather than a purely utilitarian position.

About three hundred years ago all Jews lived as a self-governing Theocratic community under the civil authority of the rabbinate. With moslems spreading sharia around, perhaps Jews should give some thought to returning to that polity.


We don't live in a theocracy. If the separation of religion and politics is too much of a problem for anyone, then perhaps he or she would be more comfortable in a theocratic society.

I assume that most non-Jews have as much interest in living under Halakha as I do in living under the religious laws of any other religion.

38 posted on 06/29/2010 12:07:34 PM PDT by NYC GOP Chick
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