libertarian_knight
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Maybe someone could clear this up for me: Why does the Christian Right in the USA behave like Jews gone wrong?
I see so much of the religious political debate involving Christianity in this country focusing on Old Testement theology that Jews themselves don't treat the same way.
So much furor developed and remains concerning displays of the 10 Commandments given to the Jews by Moses being displayed on Public Buildings and courts. But no Christian furor (or at least large public movement) in favor of public displays of the beatitudes.
Why is that? Why are Christians fighting for Judeaism?
I don't have a problem with Jews or the Jewish faith at all, but NONE of the jews I have ever met espoused the Jewish Religion the way Christians espouse the Old Testement. After all, I would defer to the Jewish interpretation of the Old Testement. (Mind you, I haven't ever met a Israeli Jewish Settler though, I live in NY state after all, and they may be different, I don't know).
It just seems to me, Pat Robertson, Jerry Fallwell etc all seem to be Angry Jews, not Merciful, Peace Loving, Humble Christians. And I have no idea why, it's almost like Christ's Teachings were meaningless to them, and that all that matters, especially to the pentacostals, is simply saying, something to the effect, that Jesus is God's Doorman.
When I read the words attributed to Christ I get the sense of Peace, Honesty, Charity and all the things that make people Good and want to do Good. I watch the 700 Club, and I sense evil and hatred pouring out of those gawdy monstrosities. I don't believe in the devil, but damn I am all but convinced those poeple are in fact the devil incarnate.
I see so much of the religious political debate involving Christianity in this country focusing on Old Testement theology that Jews themselves don't treat the same way.
So much furor developed and remains concerning displays of the 10 Commandments given to the Jews by Moses being displayed on Public Buildings and courts. But no Christian furor (or at least large public movement) in favor of public displays of the beatitudes.
Why is that? Why are Christians fighting for Judeaism?
I don't have a problem with Jews or the Jewish faith at all, but NONE of the jews I have ever met espoused the Jewish Religion the way Christians espouse the Old Testement. After all, I would defer to the Jewish interpretation of the Old Testement. (Mind you, I haven't ever met a Israeli Jewish Settler though, I live in NY state after all, and they may be different, I don't know).
It just seems to me, Pat Robertson, Jerry Fallwell etc all seem to be Angry Jews, not Merciful, Peace Loving, Humble Christians. And I have no idea why, it's almost like Christ's Teachings were meaningless to them, and that all that matters, especially to the pentacostals, is simply saying, something to the effect, that Jesus is God's Doorman.
When I read the words attributed to Christ I get the sense of Peace, Honesty, Charity and all the things that make people Good and want to do Good. I watch the 700 Club, and I sense evil and hatred pouring out of those gawdy monstrosities. I don't believe in the devil, but damn I am all but convinced those poeple are in fact the devil incarnate.