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  1. Moishe3rd

    I want to believe in God again.

    Go to church. Be Catholic. Ignore the problems people or the Church or the Scriptures or yourself - has with your sexuality. Look, if you are truly aspiring to Sainthood than you have to become celibate and stop dwelling on your sexual preferences or confusions. If not - then who cares? G-d...
  2. Moishe3rd

    It's not about terrorists, it's about theocracy

    He stated that according to one poll, nearly 50% of Indonesian Muslims support strict Sharia Law - or about 100 million Indonesians. And that 70% blame Israel, the United States or somebody else for 9/11, which is where he gets his 143 million figure as "radicalized." Which part don't you like...
  3. Moishe3rd

    It's not about terrorists, it's about theocracy

    Your belief is factually incorrect. The Jews of Germany and Austria in particular; the two major countries where Hitler would have been in contact with Jews, were nearly 100% assimilated into German culture. They were, in most ways, far, far more "German" than was Hitler. Jew hatred was...
  4. Moishe3rd

    People are being manipulated into hating Muslims

    What things are "so much worse than the fanatics?"
  5. Moishe3rd

    People are being manipulated into hating Muslims

    I appreciate your sentiments. But, I have to apologize beforehand that your history is just simply inaccurate. Islam does not need to "secularize." It needs to adhere to Islamic principles found in their scriptures that demand justice; mercy; compassion; hope; and productivity. They are all...
  6. Moishe3rd

    People are being manipulated into hating Muslims

    I responded rather thoroughly on this point on the previous page - post #191. If you can blow it up to read it, it would explain better than this brief rebuttal. I am an ("ultra") Orthodox Jew who fully accepts what Jewish Law and our history derived from the Torah. In brief - I think "we"...
  7. Moishe3rd

    People are being manipulated into hating Muslims

    Muslims, as a whole, are no more violent that Christians, as a whole, WERE, up until about 100 to 200 years ago. Muslims, as a whole, are currently the most violent religious sects on Earth. Christians today, as a whole, are not violent at all.
  8. Moishe3rd

    People are being manipulated into hating Muslims

    Historically - the above is untrue. Mohammad was not a warlord. He was a Judge. And, he made his reputation as a Just Judge in Yathrib (Medina) and thus acquired followers who respected his ideas on Islam; the new philosophy from whence came his Justice. He went on to conquer those tribes that...
  9. Moishe3rd

    People are being manipulated into hating Muslims

    My thoughts? It’s like this: Jewish history demonstrates that Jews went through about 1,000 years of tribal conquests; bloody sectarian wars; preaching the inferiority of non-Jews; the obligation for Jews to conquer non-Jews; and a whole host of atrocities against non-Jews and, most importantly...
  10. Moishe3rd

    People are being manipulated into hating Muslims

    People don't have to follow Papal edicts either - unless they believe in them. Those who believe in their clerics or imams follow their fatwas. Saudi Arabia is an absolute monarchy where State approved fatwas are edicts that all Muslims are supposed to follow. Iran's Wilayat al-Faqih theocracy...
  11. Moishe3rd

    People are being manipulated into hating Muslims

    Not according to almost any poll; including those taken by Muslims in the Muslim world. Their polls claim that the first group is 10 to 30 percent of all Muslims - depending upon how one defines "pushing their agenda through violence." At 10%, that is about 150 million Muslims.... At your one...
  12. Moishe3rd

    People are being manipulated into hating Muslims

    Sufism started out as an esoteric reaction to the materialism of the original Sunni Islam but, like Buddhism and other theoretically "peaceful" religions, Sufis became a subset of whatever Sunni School of Islam they followed and, whereas they still try and follow the "inner" teachings of any...
  13. Moishe3rd

    People are being manipulated into hating Muslims

    The only problem of course, is that there is a long history of any kind of Muslim killing any other kind of Muslim - not just Sunni and Shia but ever possible sect and faction and subgroup all murdering each other.... And, unfortunately, the same was true of Christianity up until recently...
  14. Moishe3rd

    People are being manipulated into hating Muslims

    Conspiracy much? Muslims are slaughtering each other by the millions and you're worried about some secret cabal trying to divide Muslims and non-Muslims? Really?
  15. Moishe3rd

    People are being manipulated into hating Muslims

    It seems that most folk believe that the problem is that Muslims are killing non Muslims. No. The problem is that the Muslim Arab world has been developing their Muslim Reformation for the last 100 years and are engaged in mass murder (mostly other Muslims and Arabs) and destruction and, they...
  16. Moishe3rd

    Do you have questions about Traditional Judaism?

    Either 5,774 years or - according to Rabbi Isaac of Acco; about the 12th century; about 15 billion years... That would be the generations of Man BEFORE Adom and Chava though.... On the Gripping Hand, the question might be when did Adam become Adam as opposed to a hominid animal? I suspect...
  17. Moishe3rd

    Do you have questions about Traditional Judaism?

    Being a Torah observant Jew is neither a religion, nor a nationality. It is a way of life. Anyone born of a Jewish mother or who converted to become a Jew according to Jewish Law - is a Jew. Soooo... I guess you'll have to decide whether that means its a religion or a nationality. Another...
  18. Moishe3rd

    Do you have questions about Traditional Judaism?

    No. Everyone who is born of a Jewish mother is a Jew, not matter if they are totally divorced from being a Jew. Torah observant Jews, ie: "Orthodox", might indicate to non observant Jews that they should be observant Jews and obey the Laws of the Torah and G-d but - we all still be Jews.
  19. Moishe3rd

    Do you have questions about Traditional Judaism?

    Sure. The Jews received both the Written Torah and the Oral Torah from G-d on Mt. Sinai. The Written Torah is what is often called the First Five Books of the bible; or the Five Books of Moses; etc. The Oral Torah is the explanation of the Written Torah. This was passed on from Moses to Joshua...
  20. Moishe3rd

    Do you have questions about Traditional Judaism?

    Jews do not accept Jesus as a "messiah;" as a "god;" or as the "son of god." Period. Christianity is based on the idea that Jesus was some kind of divine messenger. According to the last 3,000 years of Torah, Jewish learning, and Jewish Law, he was not.
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