tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889529596531127755.post462545739950468599..comments2024-03-12T12:06:53.187-07:00Comments on Doing Magick: The Rabbi SpeakethRoberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10144040453666802786noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889529596531127755.post-70841427383933304322010-12-09T14:04:10.683-08:002010-12-09T14:04:10.683-08:00I never do that as a planned test. It just sort of...I never do that as a planned test. It just sort of happens every time I meet someone that appears to have understanding. The reaction tells me the extent of that understanding.<br /><br />It seemed more than active rejection, nearly instinctual but I could be wrong.Roberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10144040453666802786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889529596531127755.post-43651658706267105972010-12-09T02:29:21.337-08:002010-12-09T02:29:21.337-08:00Huh, I'd never thought of psychic humility tes...Huh, I'd never thought of psychic humility testing before. Do you think his reaction was more indicative of simply ignoring the compliments, or actively rejecting them?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15009778570667265968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889529596531127755.post-23664704826044995982010-12-08T14:10:59.705-08:002010-12-08T14:10:59.705-08:00You may also find this article by the late Profess...You may also find this article by the late Professor Gershom Scholem interesting: http://www.scribd.com/doc/26595771/Gershom-Scholem-The-Beginnings-of-the-Christian-KabbalahAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889529596531127755.post-20219967087037776232010-12-08T09:05:15.872-08:002010-12-08T09:05:15.872-08:00Just to be clear, I didn't use that term with ...Just to be clear, I didn't use that term with them. Lavanah warned me ahead of time. However, my observation of the differences between what I have witnessed led me to confirm the idea that the term Judeo-Christian is bogus.Roberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10144040453666802786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889529596531127755.post-67018020359569320562010-12-08T09:02:56.700-08:002010-12-08T09:02:56.700-08:00There are several reasons that the group may have ...There are several reasons that the group may have disliked the term "Judeo-Christian Tradition." Thousands of years of attacks on Jews by both official Christian Church organizations and individual Christians is certainly a part of it. Continued attempts to destroy Judaism by saying it is "completed" in Christianity is another. Attempts to destroy Judaism from within with the "Jews for Jesus" and similar "Messianic Jews" organizations is another reason. Total misinterpretation of the Jewish Bible to imply that it refers to Jesus when it does not is a reason. The attempt to replace the Jewish bible (it's "old") with the Christian bible (it's new) is another. The fact that virtually every theological concept of Christianity is contrary to those of Judaism is yet another as is the outright anti-semitism and misrepresentation of facts found in the Christian "new" testament.<br /><br />The term "Judeo-Christian" is only a couple of hundred years old. It developed because Christian scholars came to understand that Christianity was something entirely new and different from Judaism (even though Jews comprised its early membership) and desperately wanted to have some form of antiquity associated with their religion. See the book <i>The Mythmaker: Paul and the Invention of Christianity</i> by Hyam MacCoby for more details on the real sources of Christianity. Many Jews accepted the term in an attempt to get out from under the attacks of Christian terrorist oppression throughout Europe: "We're just like you, only earlier."<br /><br />For more information on the subject, see <i>The Myth of the Judeo-Christian Tradition, and Other Dissenting Essays</i> by Arthur Allen Cohen.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com