[dfwgator]

Well somebody’s gonna do it, might as well be me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUCNAnp2QAI

[jjotto]

Interesting that Prager ignores that this was at first a Jewish civil war. Hellenist Jews (‘Mit-yavnim’ in Hebrew) were eager to adopt Greek practices and outlook and to discard Torah-mandated practices.

[FarCenter]

Despite this belief — that the God of Judaism is the God of all humanity — Judaism never insisted that non-Jews needed to convert to Judaism. Thus, Jews never forcibly imposed Judaism on non-Jews. But, unlike all their pagan neighbors, the Jews rejected the gods of everyone else. And this infuriated Antiochus. He hated the Jews’ monotheism.

While the Jews never forcibly imposed Judaism, Christians and Muslims drew the logical conclusion and forcibly imposed Christianity and Islam. However, it is also not clear that Judaism was the only pre-Christian monotheistic religion. There are monotheistic elements in some sects of Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, and Yazdism.

[Falconspeed]

Wow. And some people think Prager is smart or something. Rejecting Greek Hellenism never happened, thankfully, which is why we have human rights, free markets and freedom of religion. Thank you, Pericles and Pythagoras. And thanks go to St. Raymond of Penyafort (died 1275) for advancing the principles of Greek Hellenism and to Alexander Hamilton (died 1804) for advancing free markets.

[enumerated]

My stition is more super than your stition

[Mr. Blond]

Wow, thanks Jews!