Gaigin (”foreigner” if I recall my Japanese coach’s teachings....to this yudaiagin)
ZC accurately represents the orthodox Jewish views of the trinity and clearly represents the Torah’s requirement of the non-Jew, the Noahide Laws.
Do Orthodox Jews get upset if your Christian opinion damns a Holocaust victim to eternal hell? (Answer—no. Maybe not-yet-observant Jews, but not the observant.) So why get bent out of shape if we disagree with you parsing the Almighty into three?
Ya know what..?
I think it’s great you’re a yudaiajin. And I think people whose faith is Noachide are fine.
And I find questions and differences genuinely interesting.
I welcome sober debate, and I learn a lot from it.
What I didn’t like about the vignette that I cited was the, “Thank G-d we are in league in our shared, strong committment to monotheism against those disgusting CHRISTIANS..!” element there was to it, at the time.
I didn’t give excruciating detail because simply to recall it was uncomfortable and embarrassing.
Besides a strong Israel, one of the best defenses for Jews everywhere is a warm and relationship with their best allies, Christians, particularly Evangelicals (full disclosure, I am not an Evangelical, though I think they’re fine).
It constantly amazes me, though, the way that Sarah Palin —a YUGE, outspoken ally of Israel— is constantly and wantonly ridiculed for....well, I don’t know what, really, only that the most teeth-gnashing come from a wealthy, cerebral, leftist and very secular group who seem to take a weird pride in not going to temple, etc.
Indeed, that antipathy and activism (and committment to various forms of collectivism) seems to somehow SUBSTITUE for genuine religiosity, which I think would go much better.
I think a great many of his posts, when I have noticed them, are constructive but on this question of putting Jews and Christians more closely together...?
Nah, he drives us apart, almost every time. And typically there is much screaming and a frequent interjection of his involves the admonishment that he has been chosen by G-d, as I think you would write.
It’s aggressive and creepy and has been going on for well over 15 years.