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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
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Subject: Re: Julie Harazduk and the Trinity
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Date: Tue, 27-Aug-85 12:38:46 EDT
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> Normally, I do not reply  to  this type of  article but Julie Harazduk
> has claimed to  be Jewish.   Generally,  I consider the Jewishness  of
> Ashkenazim suspect unless they are acting in a recognizably Jewish way
> by   Sefardi   standards.   Most of  what     most Ashkenazim consider
> Jewishness  is basically some barbaric  customs picked  up from German
> and Slavic peasants over the past  couple of centuries.   Also many of
> the ideas which  Ashkenazim  consider Jewish  religious ideas in  fact
> come from Christianity. [MARTILLO]

If I were to say to Martillo that the Jewishness of Sefardim is questionable
at best because what Sefardim consider Jewishness is basically some barbaric
set of customs picked up in a variety of countries over the last couple
of centuries, and that I would not refer to his actionsas "Jewish" unless
he was acting in a recognizably Jewish way by Ashkenazic standards, he would
probably call me a name like "vusvus".

This man does not represent even his own sect of Jewish belief.  Basically,
he makes some radical fundamentalist Christians sound almost human by
comparison.  What gave him the idea that his version of "Judaism" is the
correct one while all others are "suspect" is beyond me.  He claims that
it is Ashkenazim whose ideas come from Christianity, but clearly his
self-centered intolerance and belief that his way represents what Judaism
"is" sounds like it came right out of the Spanish Inquisition, or the
Crusades.  It makes me wonder if people like Paul Zimmerman are right when
I read people like Martillo.  He lets me know that intolerance and bigotry
and hate are not isolated to one particular religion.  Not by a long shot.
-- 
"I was walking down the street.  A man came up to me and asked me what was the
 capital of Bolivia.  I hesitated.  Three sailors jumped me.  The next thing I
 knew I was making chicken salad."
"I don't believe that for a minute.  Everyone knows the capital of Bolivia is
 La Paz."				Rich Rosen    pyuxd!rlr