(March 31, 2019 at 5:49 pm)Yonadav Wrote: I correct people on this one all the time. There has always been a companion faith to Judaism for non-Jews. It's actually commanded in the OT-- when a non-Jew brings a sacrifice to the Temple, their sacrifice is to be accepted. We call non-Jewish worshipers of the Israelite deity 'Noachides'. Noachides aren't required to follow most commandments of the OT. They can eat pork and shrimp. So any Jews who were looking to recruit some non-Jews would not have had to create an easier religion for them.
Thank you! I had never heard of this before.
I won't repeat my mistake.
Quote:The xian faith seems to have been tailor made to be offensive to Jewish sensibilities. People don't realize this. It is not just a different religion to us. It is a religion that we can't have anything to do with. It is forbidden for a Jew to even go into a church. A Jew can go into a mosque. A Jew can pray in a mosque. But not a church. It really does seem to have been made toxic for Jews by design.
Yes, though I'm not aware of all of it, there is clearly some weird antipathy here.
Some oedipal? It certainly seems Freudian.
