Judaism AMA

Why is a love-hate thread on religion in the Political Board and not the General Board?
 
MrPotatoHead18230 said:
Why is a love-hate thread on religion in the Political Board and not the General Board?
Because it gives you an opportunity to "white knight" for all things Jewish, Sir Potato Head.
 
Islam and Christianity are fan-fic religions. They’re based on the Jewish scripture, but they aren’t canon. The Torah is the first five books of “the Old Testament”. Jewish scripture also includes the Tanakh and the Talmud.

Christianity and Islam both make the mistake of taking laws that were meant to apply only to Jews and saying they’re universal.
Israel is really good at taking basic rights that apply to all humans and applying them only to Jews. At least now we have an explanation.
 
Nope, I had a question what do you think are all religions pointing towards including Judaism ? Does following different religions makes us different?
 
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Exodus 22:24 only says not to charge other Jews interest on loans. Christians always make the mistake of assuming the laws of the Torah are universal. They were written for Jews and apply only to Jews.
No, in Matthew 5:17... Jesus stated that he came not to abolish the law but to fulfill it..... the first 5 books of the Bible are for all people and to emphasize this when Jesus was murdered on the cross the altar and the tapestry was torn in the Temple and the parable of the talents with the master and his 3 servants once again condemns borrowing money with interest..... Matthew 25: 14-30 .........once again borrowing money or borrowing money with interest is a sin, it violates the first commandment
The 10 commandments are not the nine suggestions and 1 possibility...they are law......
 
Oh you know. Just the important ones. Life. Liberty. The pursuit of happiness. Functioning hospitals. Employment. Education. Worship. Hate. Murder. Antisemitism. Fear of Jews.
I helped you out. All people should have those!
 
I didn't make a judgement about Palestinians, I made a judgement about the state of Israel
You didn't answer either of my questions, interesting.

But you said
Israel is really good at taking basic rights that apply to all humans and applying them only to Jews. At least now we have an explanation.
By whom are they taking "basic rights" from?

We can take the scenic route back to my questions if you would prefer.
 
Nope, I had a question what do you think are all religions pointing towards including Judaism ? Does following different religions makes us different?
Judaism is more about ancestry, customs, and traditions than belief. Some Jews are spiritual, many aren’t. Jews are big on mindfulness—remembering where we come from and our responsibilities to the community and world.
 
Judaism is more about ancestry, customs, and traditions than belief. Some Jews are spiritual, many aren’t. Jews are big on mindfulness—remembering where we come from and our responsibilities to the community and world.
OKay does it have material and non material realities discussed ? Material as in we humans or this whole cosmos but does it have any mention of the non material aspect of this world in Judaism?

Also what are you thoughts on if following different religions makes us any different?
 
You didn't answer either of my questions, interesting.
You didn't ask a serious question babe. You're arguing in bad faith (again). The state of Israel is treating their Arab citizens badly. They allow racist abuse, they encourage racist abuse. They let beating, murder, intimidation, go unpunished. You already know all this. You just don't care.

The reason I raised the issue was because the OP pointed out that double standards when it comes to the rights of non Jews are baked into the system. No different to Islam really when you look at the UAE or Saudi. It's just that the UAE and Saudi don't claim to be anything else. Israel likes to pretend it isn't like that.
 
You didn't ask a serious question babe. You're arguing in bad faith (again). The state of Israel is treating their Arab citizens badly. They allow racist abuse, they encourage racist abuse. They let beating, murder, intimidation, go unpunished. You already know all this. You just don't care.

The reason I raised the issue was because the OP pointed out that double standards when it comes to the rights of non Jews are baked into the system. No different to Islam really when you look at the UAE or Saudi. It's just that the UAE and Saudi don't claim to be anything else. Israel likes to pretend it isn't like that.
I didn't argue in bad faith. I asked a question, you didn't answer because the answer would not serve you and your thoughts.

October 7th, when Hamas (made up of Palestinians) raided a music festival. They raped, killed, and kidnapped Jews. This was the start of Israel and Hamas war.

Palestinians are taught, as children, to hate Jews. I was never taught to hate a person or people and I will never teach my children to hate a person or people.

I do care about people, I care about people's lives. I have experienced death firsthand, I have seen it, I have held someone as they died. Also, I closely knew one of the kidnapped victims that did not get the opportunity to be freed, because she was killed.

I wish the war was not happening. I wish people made love and not war. But when Hamas did what they did on 10/7, they started a war. Stuff is terrible in a war.

Also, I am not a bad person, I do not argue in bad faith, or have hate for anyone. I hope you can perceive this as sincere, as it is.
 
Look at you being funny!….nobody murders more children than Israel.

“ as of 2021, some 2,171 Palestinian children had been killed in the last two decades by Israeli forces, and 139 Israeli children have been killed by Palestinian forces.

Save the Children has estimated that up to 21,000 children have gone missing from the Gaza Strip between October 2023 to June 2024.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_in_the_Israeli–Palestinian_conflict
Anyone can write on wiki, even you, even me.
The problem is a lack of credible sources.
Save the children was credible in the 70s and 80s but I’m afraid much of the bread basket agencies have gone the way of UNWRA. It’s an estimate based on whose data?
The World Health Organization vaccinated nearly 603,000 children under 10 during a mass 5 day polio vaccine in the week of February 28, 2025. In Sept around 560,000 children under 10 were vaccinated which was considered 90% of children under 10 at the time.
In any war, a certain percentage of children get killed, and over time a percentage get die from accidents, and illness.
I attribute any children dying in Gaza since Oct 2023 as being caused by Hamas. It’s a war, Hamas started it.
They took hostages, Hamas hides in their tunnels and leaves the civilians above as human shields.
 
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