Why does this discussion have to happen on a day where I don't have time to do my usual 10 OWF visits?
First of all, I would like to reiterate my previous request that people not denigrate other's belief system, just as you don't want anyone to come here and say "Homos are gay cunts who should be stoned !!!11!!" and etc. Frankly, I have found some of the things written today personally insulting myself.
Jews acknowledge that Jesus was a person. Some will even acknowledge that he had some good ideas and far-reaching ideals and that he did not claim to be a messiah. But we say that the concept of Jesus as son of God did not come around until a century or so after his death. That's why we do not accept his divinity. In terms of Messianic Jews and Jews for Jesus, 99.99% of Jews would classify them as being Christian rather than Jewish.
The Jewish bible is approximately 95% the same as the Old Testament. It is split into three parts. The first part are the five books of Moses, which were dictated to him by God (I'm giving you the religious opinion here, make up your own mind who wrote it). They are the 'Written Law' that dictates Jewish Life. There is also the 'Oral Law' that was taught to Moses at Mount Sinai and passed down to the people, that explains the Written Law in more detail. One example is that the phrase 'Eye for an eye' is not meant to be taken literally, rather if you injure someone you must compensate him the value of the lost limb.
The second part of the bible is the Prophets, which follows the history of the Jewish people for the period of the first Israelite kingdom, until it was destroyed by the Babylonians. The third part is a bunch of collected writings that I won't go into too much detail about.
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My grandma told me once that a preist was once married to a woman and they had a child together. Unfortunatly, he the preist however began to start liking men and for that matter he split up with his wife and got married to a man instead...
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I fail to see the point of this story. In my mind this is proof that homosexuals should be free to live their lives as they see fit because otherwise they may be forced into unhappy marriages that could produce unhappy offspring.
The God Hates Shrimp website is humour pointing out the irony that the Old Testament uses the same language (abomination) to decry homosexuality as shellfish. To which you can either say God really hates shrimp or he doesn't really hate homosexuals all that much.
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But the fact is, that the bible was dreamed up and written by Jews who lived in this bizarre and backwards society that had frankly autistic cultural eating habits. So hardly suprising then that it should contain many things that don't make much sense in today's modern world.
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I'm not going to go into the complexities of Jewish dietary law. Suffice to say that most of them are about treating the animal humanely - the animal must be killed as swiftly and painlessly as possible. Once again, you're being ignorant and insensitive to describe ancient Jewish culture as bizarre and backwards, when it introduced to the world things we take for granted today (monotheism, many rules regarding cruelty to animals, caring for the environment, accountability for rulers and more when I have the chance to think about it for a while).
