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From: robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: theology = head hair
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Date: Tue, 3-Jan-84 17:50:27 EST
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Persecuting a people does not make it knowledgeable about religion.
Education about religion is deeply bound into the fabric of Judaism,
probably for many reasons.  Catholics have been persecuted terribly
over the ages, including by Nazi Germany.  Our country was founded
by Christians seeking to avoid long patterns of persecution in
Europe.

One of the fundamental differences bewteen Chistianity and Judaism is
the determination by jesus that Christians should accept as
commandments, from the first five books of the bible, only the "ten
commandments".  Jews recognize over 600 commandments in the same books,
and there is an inevitable emphasis on the learning necessary to
understand
and follow a large number of commandments requiring meticulous
definition.  Christians have been offered a way that can be much
simpler, but it seems to me that every branch of Christianity has an
organized way of appealing to those of its followers who wish to
understand their religion in great detail.

				  - Toby Robison
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