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  1. Moishe3rd

    for jewish converts: why did you choose judaism over others?

    I should save this response. I'm pretty sure that I have posted it elsewhere but, here I am again... I was raised a well churched Episcopalian. My great grandfather, the original progenitor of my name, was an Episcopalian minister in Baltimore. My late uncle, after whom I was named, was the...
  2. Moishe3rd

    How do Abrahamic religions interpret this?

    Read my above explanation. If you do not understand - tell me which part you do not understand and I will try and explain further.
  3. Moishe3rd

    How do Abrahamic religions interpret this?

    No. Sodom and Gomorrah occurred before the Torah was given to the Jews. They were not Jewish.
  4. Moishe3rd

    How do Abrahamic religions interpret this?

    This has probably been answered but, I can't read the whole thread. The Torah is based on G-d's Justice. In this case, Justice means due process. You are not allowed to simply kill people or wipe out a city without due process. So yes, this is different from "my god can kill more people than...
  5. Moishe3rd

    Is ISIS Islamic?

    Thank you. And, I am not claiming "direct descent". I am claiming that the Saudi ijtihad gave "permission to declare" to the rest of the Muslim world.
  6. Moishe3rd

    Is ISIS Islamic?

    I do not understand. Qutb was Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood; Taliban, Jemaah Islamiyah, Haqqani, etc. all get their ability to create radical; "Jihaddi" Islam from the successful ijtihad of Wahhabi Islam in the conquests of the Saudis. Without the dissolution of the Ottoman's, which...
  7. Moishe3rd

    Is ISIS Islamic?

    Indeed. Of course! They are destroying their world, and our world, as we write. However, Man has done this kind of thing based on their "immutable teachings" - forever. Even today - the religion of the "immutable teachings" of "science" has taken control of wide swathes of humanity. Those who...
  8. Moishe3rd

    Is ISIS Islamic?

    It appears that you may be referring to the immediate future. In that, you may be correct. However, historically, my broad based options are also obviously correct. As Jews slaughtered each other and non Jews with equanimity 2,000 years ago - they destroyed the Kingdom of Israel; the Second...
  9. Moishe3rd

    Is ISIS Islamic?

    I shall attempt to be a bit more coherent... perhaps? The article does not "get acquainted with the Islamic State’s intellectual genealogy." Why? Because the author would have to clearly connect the dots to radical Sunni Islam's current origin of incarnation - Saudi Wahhabism. ALL radical...
  10. Moishe3rd

    Is ISIS Islamic?

    Brilliant article in the Atlantic. And, wrong. I have read many brilliant well researched articles on ISIS and radical Islam in general. The problem with all of the authors thus far is that they take the recent events of the last 10 or 20 or 30 years as indicative of the direction that Islam...
  11. Moishe3rd

    Judaism

    1) We don't. (as has been mentioned) 2) I; me; personally; not inclusive of anyone else; IMHO - also don't, but..... G-d is the G-d of History. And, I love History. I specialize in loving Religious History. And, I really love Jewish; Christian; Muslim religious History. And.... Jewish...
  12. Moishe3rd

    Torah and the Bible

    Here's a shot... Jews and Jewish Law define things differently than does Christianity and its historical descendant - "Western" theology and history. We have the Written Torah which is the first five books of what you know of as the "old testament." We call the "old testament" Tanach, which...
  13. Moishe3rd

    why are so many people against islam ?

    Weird justifications here. The only country torturing and executing gay folk are Muslim countries. The only places currently involved in mass slaughter of their own or others are Muslims. It's a problem now, not 500 years ago....
  14. Moishe3rd

    why are so many people against islam ?

    Death. Destruction. Killing people at random in the Name of their god. That tends to put people off.
  15. Moishe3rd

    The New Pew and the Jew

    Bubelah... hate to break it to you but - anyone can be a Jew too! All you have to do is accept the Commandments of G-d. Try it. You might like it! :)
  16. Moishe3rd

    The New Pew and the Jew

    Sounds good to me too! It's worked out well for the last 3,000 years or so.
  17. Moishe3rd

    The New Pew and the Jew

    Being Jewish is not dependent upon melanin. It is dependent upon accepting G-d's Torah and G-d's Laws.
  18. Moishe3rd

    The New Pew and the Jew

    Indeed. It is a tenet that G-d Creates marriages. Which would indicate that He is letting His People Go who want to leave and intermarry... Then again, I am one half of a formerly intermarrried couple so... Hashem also appears to want new blood to infuse into His Chosen People. Life is...
  19. Moishe3rd

    The New Pew and the Jew

    You know the nearer your destination The more you're slip slidin' away I know a Jew He came from some home town He wore his passion for assimilation Like a thorny crown He said Jews - you live in fear Your god is so tenuous, I'm afraid that it will disappear Slip slidin' away Slip slidin' away...
  20. Moishe3rd

    Can you swear that - you're affirm your religion is truth, and will never change to disbelieve it?

    Yes, but NO ONE expects the ISIS Inquisition!
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