[Sca-cooks] Judaism- was Re: Seder, etc
Randy Goldberg MD
goldberg at bestweb.net
Fri Mar 22 17:47:11 PST 2002
> OK, that mostly makes sense to me. Only objection I
> can see right off, would be to number 3- I don't
> really see where Jews would have the right to dictate
> non-Jews' beliefs.
We're talking about JEWS' beliefs about non-Jews' beliefs. Polytheism
and idolatry are forms of blasphemy, by Biblical definitions.
> Considering how much we've
> discussed about the appearance of things being
> important, I can see that this might cause some strife
> with Christians, for example, with the Trinity being
> perceived both as thrre separate Persons, and aspects
> of One, and the ever-present Crucifixes, with or
> without a bleeding Jesus on them.
And, in fact, in some times and places, some rabbis have stated that
Catholicism is both polytheistic and idolatrous, for precisely those
reasons... for some reason, I think Martin Luther made a similar
charge....
> But otherwise,
> prohibitions against Murder, Theft, Rape, Lawbreaking,
> Animal abuse, and Blasphemy are reasonable, and
> generally are the basic rules which any society should
> observe.
That was sort of the point. :-)
Av
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