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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s not true. They feel extra persecuted because they’re Christians who claim they’re Jewish and they don’t understand why Jews find that obnoxious and offensive. [/quote]

This sounds anti-semitic. Who gets to decide who is Jewish?[/quote]

Well... Jewish law has a lot of discussion about this actually. Jews get to decide who is Jewish, and Christian missionary groups that try to offer "Messianic Judaism" as a culturally sensitive way to become Christian are, in fact, antisemitic.

The Jews they are able to convert to this everything bagel-scented Christianity had weak Jewish affiliations to begin with or have psychological problems.  [/quote]

They see themselves as Jewish, so if you agree that Jews get to decide, then they’ve decided they’re Jews, right? You repeatedly trying to just write them off as psychologically disturbed says more about you than about them. [/quote]

They believe Jesus was the messiah, ergo, they are not Jewish. They’re Christians with Jewish trappings, and their insistence that they, not the rest of us, are the only ones who truly understand Judaism is what people especially don’t like about them. [/quote]

Jews believe that a messiah will come. So believing a messiah has come is consistent. Jesus never claimed to be anything different from Jewish.[/quote]

True, I sort of skipped over some of their even more problematic (from a Jewish theological standpoint) beliefs. They believe Jesus was the son of God, which Jews don't believe; they adhere to the New Testament, which we don't; they believe faith in Jesus — er, sorry, Yeshua — is the path to salvation, which we don't. And they believe actual Jews are somehow doing it all wrong. They're Christians with Jewish trappings, like I said before. [/quote]

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