Owens blames Israeli rabbi for ‘paying pastors’ to denounce her and Tucker Carlson
In a Facebook post, conservative commentator Candace Owens accused Rabbi Shlomo Riskin of secretly offering Bitcoin donations to American pastors who preach against her and fellow broadcaster Tucker Carlson—an allegation the rabbi’s Ohr Torah Stone network rejected on Thursday as “false, baseless and defamatory.”
After the claim went viral, Rabbi Kenneth Brander, president of Ohr Torah Stone, issued a statement saying that “neither Rabbi Riskin nor Ohr Torah Stone has ever offered, promised or suggested any form of compensation—monetary or otherwise—to clergy of any faith for making political or public statements of any kind.” Brander called on Owens to retract her remarks and apologize.
The statement added a warning that “baseless conspiracy theories” harm civil discourse and religious cooperation.
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemit...cle-859258
In a Facebook post, conservative commentator Candace Owens accused Rabbi Shlomo Riskin of secretly offering Bitcoin donations to American pastors who preach against her and fellow broadcaster Tucker Carlson—an allegation the rabbi’s Ohr Torah Stone network rejected on Thursday as “false, baseless and defamatory.”
After the claim went viral, Rabbi Kenneth Brander, president of Ohr Torah Stone, issued a statement saying that “neither Rabbi Riskin nor Ohr Torah Stone has ever offered, promised or suggested any form of compensation—monetary or otherwise—to clergy of any faith for making political or public statements of any kind.” Brander called on Owens to retract her remarks and apologize.
The statement added a warning that “baseless conspiracy theories” harm civil discourse and religious cooperation.
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemit...cle-859258
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
