Brooklyn wrote: ↑Tue May 25, 2021 1:52 pm
MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Tue May 25, 2021 12:44 pm
yikes, did I call you a "television evangelist"???
Some of the most scummy folks around, exploiting people hungry, often desperately so, for meaning and faith...and certainty...for a buck? A lot of bucks?
No, I merely asked whether you meant to come across the way you were sounding, as someone who, in common with many evangelicals and other fundamentalists, believe there is a provably singularly correct interpretation of sacred text.
If so, I disagree.
But definitely doesn't make you a scummy TV evangelist!
On the merits, I already said that I don't think any orthodox or fundamentalist believer in a singularly correct interpretation would ever find an alternative interpretation to have "refuted" their interpretation...and vice versa.
So, your assertion "never been refuted" is rather meaningless IMO.
But that doesn't make you a scummy person!
~ definitely doesn't make you a scummy TV evangelist! ~
One would at least hope not.
~ your assertion "never been refuted" is rather meaningless IMO. ~
I stand by that truthful assertion just like they do. Best part of all is that it proves that opposing Zionist ideology does not constitute anti Semitism. They are the first ones to uphold that truth.
Shalom ...
So, Brooklyn, would you agree that saying I'd called you a "television evangelist" was off-base, a gross exaggeration? It's ok, to say "my bad".
You're certainly welcome to believe as you believe. But you can be confident that few would agree with you that it "proves" anything at all more than a chosen belief set, a singular textual interpretation not held by most Jews.
As to opposition of Zionism is not
necessarily antisemitic, sure. No "proof" actually needed to make that assertion.
Nor would the statement that
most anti-semites oppose Zionism, and the State of Israel, be untrue. Indeed, most do oppose.
The easiest statement with which most can agree is that disagreement with a specific political party or set of policies does not make one-anti semitic, indeed many such critics simply believe that such are not in the long term interest of the State of Israel or Judaism.