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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are different levels of being "observant."  He's probably not orthodox and definitely isn't Hasidim if he's dating your daughter.

I view Christians as ... nothing, really.  I personally think it's nuts to pray to a dead, Jewish guy. I personally believe Mary was raped by someone who refused to admit to being Jesus' father. But none of that matters.

I've worked with and been friends with Christian people active in their church, and they've been a pleasure to be around. I've also worked with Christian people active in their church who have surprised me with how petty, passive-aggressive and all around awful they are.

I take everyone individually. Not all jews are cheap, you know? [/quote]

Thank goodness all Jews aren’t as obnoxious, cynical, and as disrespectful as you are.[/quote]

I'm Christian/Catholic and I didn't think the response was obnoxious or disrespectful.  OP asked for her opinion and she answered.  Stop being so sensitive.  [/quote]

NP, but it was super dismissive and disrespectful. Nothing? Really? How would she feel if we said Judaism was "nothing"?[/quote]

Judaism IS something in Christianity and Islam. Its nothing in Buddish or Hinduism, but no one thinks its something in them.

Jews on the other hand, are often asked for the "official position" on Jesus, and usually its assumed to be the position of unitarian or "spiritual not religioius" Christians, rather than anything to do with Jewish tradition.

"Y"all don't believe he was God, but he WAS the messiah, right"  Or "You believe he was a great rabbi, don't you?"

No.   The only evidence he was a "great rabbi"  is some lines in the New Testament, lines which he have no reason to consider historical.  And in general we are not obsessed with the historical Jesus.  The range of Jewish opinions on Jesus run from Rosenzweig ("God wanted him to spread monotheism to the gentiles") to some early rabbis ("he was a magician and/or a false messiah") to the typical modernist (Whatever the secular historians say he was")

Similarly there is NOT generally speaking a "view of Christianity" apart from its worldly consequences - of which the biggest schools of thought are "The gentiles would have killed us less if they had stayed pagan" and "the gentiles would have killed us more if they had stayed pagan". [/quote]

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