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- From: rlk@underprize.think.com (Robert Krawitz)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish
- Subject: Re: Christianity vs. the Jews
- Date: 29 Dec 92 17:12:31
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge Mass., USA
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- Message-ID: <RLK.92Dec29171231@underprize.think.com>
- References: <1gbftqINN844@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1h442nINN9dt@uniwa.uwa.edu.au>
- <1992Dec22.132648.18487@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> <6626@pdxgate.UUCP>
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- In-reply-to: a0cb@rigel.cs.pdx.edu's message of 29 Dec 92 20:21:32 GMT
-
- In article <6626@pdxgate.UUCP> a0cb@rigel.cs.pdx.edu (Chris Bertholf) writes:
-
- saal@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (samuel.saal) writes:
-
- >The algorithm is standard and transparent:
- >1: "join us. We're Jews, too." (cajole and convince)
- >If that fails....
- >2: "_you_ aren't real Jews." (condemn)
-
- Actually, the algorithm I have seen from these people is more like:
-
- [deleted]
-
- The problem is that all too many of these "messianic Jews" know full
- well that they are Christians and deliberately pretend otherwise (see
- the recent posting of the Jews for Jesus internal document). Also, it's
- remarkable how quickly most of them (messianics) start talking about
- Jesus and lose interest in anything else. In other words, there is
- reason to believe that a lot of this is fraud, and most of us have
- little interest in that.
-
- As you might have noticed, this is one of the VERY few issues that
- essentially everyone here who does not believe in Jesus in some form or
- another agrees on.
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