Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: wlinden@msb.com (Will Linden) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Sotah 49a-49b Message-ID: Date: 19 May 91 03:01:44 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Meetpoint Station BBS Lines: 16 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In hudson@athena.cs.uga.edu (Paul Hudson Jr) writes: >Why shouldn't Christian Jews call themselves Jews? Jesus was a Jew. >Was his disciple Peter a Jew? Were his apostles Jewish? >I know of Messianics who keep kosher and keep the law. You say that >they are not Jewish, yet there are reformed Jews who do not keep any >of the food ordinances, are these Jews? What he said. I can not understand the rationale for claiming that an atheist who sneers at Torah and halakah but made the right choice of mother is somehow MORE Jewish than Moshe Rosen. -- Will Linden MCI: WLINDEN Internet: wlinden@msb.com "On to the castle, to kill the royal UUCP: ...uupsi!mpoint!wlinden family, and claim the throne that Compuserve: 72737,2150 isn't mine by right!"