Damned Pervert Priests - and other assorted Holy Scumbags

[Fireball]

Nailed it!

Mary Magdalene? Ya Buddy!

I wonder if he had a bent dick also.

Like a shepherd's crook, it was.

[Pat Mustard]

Let me guess, despite all the evidence to the contrary*, your cult doesn't do any of this stuff.

*I've seen your bio, you're a fundagelical LARPing as a jewish convert.  Of course your cult is neck deep in all the evils you describe.

There are only five or so sects within Judaism, and only some small groups of the Haredi (Super-Orthodox) have cult-like tendencies where the tendency to follow the dictates of their Rabbi might encourage such abuse. The Orthodox, Conservative, Reform and Reconstructionist viewpoints differ only in ways you would not be interested in, and cannot really be easily discerned from one another. None have particularly large congregations, and thus cannot maintain the control needed for religious uniformity that leads to abuse. I am not saying it doesn't happen, because it does, but it is very localized. All reject Messianic Jews/Notsrim, and have done so since 126 AD, no matter how orthodox their customs and traditions.
 
I have never belonged to a church, and was raised in a secular Jewish family that never used the word G-d, complained about the necessity of even attending weddings in churches, and never spoke of their heritage except by accident. I have attempted the occasional attendance at various xtian assemblies, and found myself promptly kicked out the moment I asked an inconvenient question, much as happened at the various Christian Forums I have attempted to find a decent conversation at, although I always remained polite enough to not be banned.
 
I don't LARP, finding the assumption of Jewish customs by non-Jews to raise in me a slight feeling of nausea, as those doing so have no idea of what they are attempting, and myself having been raised in a secular family, I follow only such customs as are related to the Moedim (festivals) and Shabbats. I merely follow to the best of my ability those commandments as written in what non-Jews call the Old Testament, as they are written, and pay little attention to Jewish tradition.
 
I could more properly be called a Nazarene, but only in the sense that Jews in the First Century were called 'Notsrim'. We were highly orthodox in behavior, and were well accepted amongst Jews until political differences led to persecution. Were I living in Israel, Notsrim is what I would be called. Nazarenes in the western countries, however, in this late era, are far too Greco-Roman in outlook for my taste, presuming I could find a fellowship to attend. 
 
So, one stretches a little and label's oneself a Messianic Jew, which, since most Jews, even the Haredi, are looking forward to the coming of the Messiah, can be taken a lot of ways.
 
As for what each Messianic Jewish fellowship has difficulties with in regard to money, power and sex, I have no knowledge of, but I have some doubts as to whether they have sufficient money or power to hide anything from their members. Each assembly (synagogue) is small, disconnected from one another except for holding to some general principles under a few umbrella organizations that have no power over their members, and all synagogues are much in dispute with each other, even as it is said that when two Jews meet, you will have three opinions in regard to almost any matter, secular or religious.
 
However, you are correct that the ratio of Jews to Hebraic-seeking xtian’s is quite low in Messianic synagogues, but those non-Jews that wish to adopt Jewish culture find few cultural rules of behavior, or halacha, to guide them, and soon re-orient on the Hebraic Roots movement if what they want is to feel more Jewish than Greco-Roman without actually dealing with the Covenants that Jews believe require them to act in certain specific ways. 

Not that you precisely asked for the above informaion, but is there anything else you want to know? 

No amount of bullshit will change reality, fundagelical.

PSif you don't LARP, why are you pretending to be a jew?

[Pat Mustard]

[Pat Mustard]

Prophecies are fulfilled at exactly the same rate at coincidence, and for exactly the same reasons.

Boru

I disagree, but how does one prove that?

Show us one passage in the old testament that definitively predicts Jesus and accurately describes his ministry that wasn't a post hoc addition by one of your fellow christians.

Oh and PS the world doesn't universally hate jews. Chistians from the far right sects and cults you're part of do but you and your fellow travellers aren't everybody.

[Pat Mustard]

Funny thing about prophecy.  The probability of it being fulfilled goes way up when people consciously intend to bring about its fulfillment.  I wonder why?

The vast majority of successful prophecies were written after the events they predicted had occurred.

Strange that.

[Pat Mustard]

The establishment of Israel was in large part a response to the effects of the holocaust.  Are you saying that your god is responsible for genocide?  (again?)

Humankind has free will. .

Then your god has no possibility of existing, christian. An all powerful being cannot exist in a universe with free will.

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