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Your question permitted two choices: either Paul was crazy or he was a cuckoo bird. Again, I choose neither. As I read it, the only people who should be upset by that segment of scripture are the hypocritical Pharisees to (and against) whom it is directed. Do you count yourself among them...

Thus, perhaps, the interest in some quarters to determine if the Pashtuns are among the "lost tribes" of Israel. ====>Source Serv

Ok. Did you just answer your own fascinating question? He apparently synagogue hopped like I used to hop from club to club in my rave days, when we shiny happy people had lots and lots of (usually illegal) fun. Neither. I prefer neither choice. On the other hand, if you have a...

How, exactly, are you able to ascertain (or, more accurately, divine), from this historical distance, how Rabbi Hirsch learned anything? At one point, he apparently left the Jews to Peter, the “apostle of the circumcision,” and went to the gentiles (source). At any rate, even if I accepted...

To be clear, and though I quoted him, the allusions are Nietzsche’s, not mine. Nietzsche: "In plain English: a stupendous literary fraud becomes necessary, “holy scriptures” are discovered [reference, I think, to the time of Ezra], and they are published abroad with all hieratic pomp, with...

Source: Emil Gustav Hirsch: "… Judaism before Paul's time had begun to extend its influence, but the barriers of the law kept out a waiting world. In the days of Paul men were yearning for a new light, they were athirst and cried out, as the children of Israel in the desert cried out … But...

Right. The situation was complex. Here, for what it is worth (coming, as it has, from a pinko leftie turned neo-conservative author), is something I recently read in which a Marrano of the era reportedly had more trouble with the synagogue than the synagogue had with the Marrano. See, too, how...

Nietzsche: “The concept of God falsified; the concept of morality falsified: but the Jewish priesthood did not stop at this. No use could be made of the whole history of Israel, therefore, it must go! These priests accomplished that miracle of falsification, of which the greater part of the...

Source: Pierre van Paassen: “One of the strangest figures to come to The World’s [his newspaper's] office, where there was a daily flow of visitors, was Ignace Trebitsch-Lincoln. Said to be a son of Jewish parents, Trebitsch, when I knew him, had been a Catholic priest in Vienna, an Anglican...

Good. I wanted to ensure that, as y’all say in Britain, “at the end of the day,” I was contributing to your peace and was not perpetuating agitation. Concerning the subject of Zionism and its many facets, how I do wish, sometimes, that I could have been present to hear the discussions between...

Friedrich Nietzsche (ibid., p. 46) “… The first thing to be remembered [when reading the gospels] if we do not wish to lose the scent here, is that we are among Jews. The dissembling of holiness which, here, literally amounts to genius, and which has never been even approximately achieved...

Beth Orton and M. Ward doing a cool rendition of Dylan's Buckets of Rain Serv

While, for all other issues, I am willing to wait for your approval to continue this discussion, bananabrain, I must address one point because honor is at stake. You asked if it was “the” phrase, not if it was “my” phrase. I have neither used it nor claimed it as mine. If, on the...

The timing on that was interesting, Bananabrain. In light of my response (#201) above, I shall ask if you wish to proceed? I can probably continue with this vollying all day and well into the night but I also like to at least occasionally convince myself that, when need be, I can hold my tongue...

Hi Saltmeister, Please don’t read this, my current correction. Corrigendum: Aaargh! That should be cannons, double ‘n’. Note to Bananabrain, I was oblivious to some of the interpersonal dynamics here in effect. For your information, I have no need to agitate. Some, but not all, of what...

The next step, after almost bringing one's self into harmony with General Ludendorff, is to get all tingly with excitement at Wagner’s Parsifal :). Source: (pp. 16-17) Friedrich Nietzsche: “… the Christian Church as compared with the “chosen people,” lacks all claim to originality...

It seems to me that you are arguing as if all things are in this case equal. Given the fact that Israel, unlike Palestine, has realized its national ambitions and has achieved the status of modern, nation state, I hold it to higher standards than I hold the residents of the Gaza Strip, most of...

Thank you. And there is, in this case, no need to apologize. I understand. With the facts kept fully in mind that neither Christianity nor Rabbinic Judaism was yet normative, at the time of Jesus, I clearly admitted that I was speculating and was playing upon which direction Jesus...

Source (pp. 168-170) Pierre van Paassen (interviewing Germany's General Ludendorff) “… the Jews are not our enemies because of their race, but because one of their subtlest rabbis, the man called Saint Paul, distilled the poison of the Christ myth out of the life story of Jesus of Nazareth...

Then perhaps you should take issue with the person who, as you see it, has blamed you for genocide against yourself. Are you laying that charge at my doorstep? At any rate, despite your *alert*, I was not creating a false dichotomy: the historical divide between the Talmudists and Christians is...