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| Mercer: American Rabbis Practice Pop Judaism, For The Most |
| 2018-11-01 |
| [Barely a Blog] America’s rabbis are mostly dumb, eschatologically and generally. I wouldn’t take seriously anything they say about President Donald Trump. Not unlike their Christian compatriots in the ministry and the priesthood‐rabbis are generally an unscholarly lot, more inclined to pop-religion and social justice. Like their Christian friends, rabbis aim to bring religion in line with self-help literature and common leftist spiritual and political hobbyhorses and quests. Thus, you have this silly "’Rabbi," who, "At Mike a Pence Rally Thinks Jews Who Deny Christ Go To Hell." It’s simply untrue, from the perspective of Judaism. Judaism considers Yehoshua, aka Yeshu, aka Jesus Christ, a prophet, not part of a Godhead (which we don’t have). Thus, there is no punishment of hell for giving the cold shoulder to a prophet. On the other hand, other Jewish leaders acted ungraciously, even disgracefully, in snubbing President Trump, on his visit to grieving Pittsburgh on Tuesday afternoon: Shameful. You don’t reject a show of mercy and compassion. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #3 :-) About messianic Jews, because we all wondered, and the internet has answers: In an Atlantic article, titled “Kosher Jesus: Messianic Jews in the Holy Land,” Sarah Posner explains that “there are an estimated 175,000 to 250,000 Messianic Jews in the U.S. and 350,000 worldwide, according to various counts, they are a tiny minority in Israel — just 10,000-20,000 people by some estimates — but growing, according to both its proponents and critics.” |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2018-11-01 22:33 |
| #2 silly rabbi Hang on, hang on. I need to work this into a Trix cereal commercial bit. In the meantime, given that in 2018 when all sense and meaning have gone out the window, when a white woman can identify as black or Cherokee, when sexually confused can identify as any of 57 different genders, I see no reason a why Jew cannot accept Jesus as his personal savior even though I might personally have gone with Baal, Odin or Quetzalcoatl. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2018-11-01 12:10 |
| #1 The silly rabbi in this case is a so-called Messianic Jew, what we on the Jewish side of the equation call a Christian, because as this clip shows, he considers Jesus Christ his personal saviour. Also, I was not aware that Judaism considers Jesus Christ an actual prophet, rather than a charismatic rabbi. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2018-11-01 10:53 |