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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans
Why any Orthodox rabbi (not that this Rabbi Skorka is Orthodox; I don't know if he is or not) would want to engage in ecumenism with any other religion is beyond me. The Jewish community of Rome is the worst offender.

There's absolutely nothing new about Catholicism not being a proselytary religion. None of the ancient churches engage in proselytism. Their whole mindset is that the world converted seventeen hundred years ago, so now chrstians just reproduce sexually. I suppose it has something to do with being an ethnic religion, which the ancient churches are.

In addition to that, Catholicism today considers proselytism to be a Protestant concept. Like creationism, the Catholic Church sort of defines itself against proselytism. And they scream as loud as any anti-missionary Jew when they find a tract under their windshield wiper. (The whole "we don't steal other churches' sheep" is just another form of this anti-proselytary mindset.)

122 posted on 10/08/2013 1:11:47 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (The Left: speaking power to truth since Shevirat HaKelim.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

The very much non-Orthodox “Rabbi” Skorka operates under the auspices of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.


124 posted on 10/08/2013 1:30:57 PM PDT by hlmencken3 (Originalist on the the 'general welfare' clause? No? NOT an originalist!)
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