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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Christianity and its Relationship to... specifically Judaism
Message-ID: <830@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 7-Nov-84 23:10:08 EST
Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.830
Posted: Wed Nov  7 23:10:08 1984
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Reply-To: mangoe@maryland.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
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In article <1654@ucf-cs.UUCP> yiri@ucf-cs.UUCP (Yirmiyahu BenDavid) writes:

>  I'm not informed on the Masai society... and have no particular desire
>  to be. If you think you know more about Jewish society and/or Judaism
>  than the Jews however, you are a presumptuous, arrogant and, worse than
>  that, ignorant.
>  
>  Since my information regarding Christianity
>  1) comes from a formerly observant, religious and knowledgeable
>  Christian who has converted to Judaism, his comments certainly are
>  qualified
>  2) has defied any logical disputation, there seems to be no apparent
>  basis for disregarding it simply because you can't find any other
>  answer.

Tell us more about this source of yours, Yirmiyahu.  Was he Catholic,
Baptist, Episcopalian, Coptic?  And I'm not sure I would consider an
apostate as a reliable source.  Christianity is at least as diverse as
Judaism, from my admittedly limited experience.

Perhaps you should read some of the great modern theologians.  How about
Reinhold Neibuhr, or Dietrich Bonhoeffer (who died in a Nazi prizon for
your race, incidentally), or, if you refuse to listen to Christians,
Martin Heidegger  [sp?], or if that is too difficult, _The Road Less
Travelled_ by M. Scott Peck.  My point is that if you want to take
potshots at the theology of Christianity, you should get better information.

While I'm at it, I would like to point out that I do not attack Judaism in
the same way that Yirmiyahu attacks christianity.  I do not claim to be a
great expert on Judaism; in any case, I am not going to engage in wanton
attacks against it.  I find it amusing, and a little disturbing, that 
Yirmiyahu is engaging in exactly the sort of intolerant abusive attacks  that
he accuses all christians of.

Charley  Wingate      umcp-cs!mangoe