If these things really didn’t have a significance, it shouldn’t have bugged him any more than getting a quotation from Confucius. “Thank you ma’am for your concern, I’ll look at this when I have a chance” and then do what you choose afterwards, ought to be an appropriate response.
I go out on a limb by saying these things DO have a significance. If the Christian story is true, and I assert that it is, then the Jewish people have a different role (not a “worse” role) than if it isn’t.
I think that's what he did.
I go out on a limb by saying these things DO have a significance. If the Christian story is true, and I assert that it is, then the Jewish people have a different role (not a “worse” role) than if it isn’t.
Yes . . . you "assert" that chr*stianity is true. Chr*stians have been "asserting" that chr*stianity is true for almost two thousand years (or seventeen hundred, depending on whether or not the whole thing was created out of whole cloth three centuries after the "fact"). But this assertion is based on absolutely nothing. Chr*stianity is "true" only because it "asserts" that it is true.
What kind of basis is that for a religion? First it claims that the Hebrew Bible prophesies about it. Then it "proves" these "prophecies" by merely invoking its own claims about them. It reads itself into the Jewish Bible no differently than Joseph Smith did. Then chr*stians have the hypocritical gall to criticize mormons for what they themselves have been doing for centuries.
Ultimately chr*stianity (like other false religions) is based on nothing but sentimentalism and tradition. "This is a chr*stian nation" is ultimately no different from the Leftist revolutionaries' "deze are de wayz of our pipples."
G-d spoke at Sinai, leaving no room for any future innovations. Therefore the "assertions" of chr*stians mean exactly bo diddley squat.
“it shouldn’t have bugged him any more than getting a quotation from Confucius. “Thank you ma’am for your concern, I’ll look at this when I have a chance” and then do what you choose afterwards, ought to be an appropriate response.”
Pretty much what I did, except it was “thank you, but I am not interested.”
Follows me to next isle, “thank you but I am not intrested.”
Shoves a cartoon in my hand and leaves.