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From: rsk@stat-l (Rich Kulawiec)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Christianity and its Relationship to... specifically Judaism
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Date: Sun, 11-Nov-84 20:05:04 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 11 20:05:04 1984
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	Round 1:

> From: yiri@ucf-cs.UUCP (Yirmiyahu BenDavid)
> 
> While there is controversy around the net among Christians regarding any
> given Christian's knowledge of Christianity, there should be no question
> that the Christian does not know Judaism and is, therefore, unqualified
> to make such statements about it. Christians should not pretend
> to speak for Judaism. That is for Jews, and Jews only, to do.

	Round 2:

> From: rsk@stat-l (Rich Kulawiec (Vombatus Hirsutus))
>	Why, then, do *you* proceed to make comments about Christianity? 
>
>	It's a short extrapolation from your argument to "Anthropologists
> should not comment on Masai society; that's for the Masai to do", a similarly
> ridiculous statement.

	Round 3:

> From: yiri@ucf-cs.UUCP (Yirmiyahu BenDavid)
> 
> 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.

	Round 4:

	Well, let's apply your standard, Yiri, since you obviously missed the
point that I made by using the Masai example.

	If you demand that anyone who is non-Jewish refrain from commenting on
Judaism, can the rest of us demand that you refrain from commenting on anything
non-Judaic?  or perhaps, anything not in Florida?  or further, anything not
at UCF?

	Y'know, you certainly have already assumed quite a bit here. For one,
you've assumed that I'm not Jewish.  Secondly, you've assumed that commenting
on Judaism implies that the commentator feels more informed than those he is
commentating on.  And thirdly, you've assumed that such commentary carries with
it an overtone of hostility.

	Are you prepared to back those assumptions up?
-- 
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