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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The premise of Judaism and Christianity is really different to me. Jews believe that they have a special relationship to G-d and are the chosen people.  It’s tribal and exclusionary. Christianity believes that Jesus died to save everyone. Anyone can be saved, if they believe. There’s not much overlain those two world views, no matter how many shared texts they have[/quote]

Hmmm. Incorrect - and mildly racist. Jews do not believe that are the chosen people b/c we are somehow smarter, more morally pure, or better looking. We believe that despite all of our manifest flaws - we were lucky enough to be chosen to receive and spread the oral law. G-d could have chosen (and maybe should have chosen) some other tribe - but we won the lottery of receiving a monotheistic moral code for reasons unknown. To the extent that Judaism became insular and exclusionary - it is because we were murdered for allowing conversion/commingling (or merely existing). Christianity believes that Jews and Muslims, etc. are going to hell and that the conversion of Jews (even under pain of death/torture) is necessary for the "second coming." In practice, Christians, under instructions from clergy have raped, murdered, tortured, etc. Jews and Muslims for millennial as their form of tribalism/exclusion/for kicks.

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exactly. and this explains why it raises my hackles when Christians claim “oh, we can celebrate any Jewish ritual we want because we incorporate it all! It’s not a separate religion, it is our Christian heritage.”[/quote]

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