03-31-2022, 05:15 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-31-2022, 05:19 AM by StirnersRevenge1844.)
At this point in history Jews are basically looking for reasons to believe in their religion- the conventional distinctions of orthodox, Conservative and Reform seem to have blended together, the only group with an actually distinct approach is the Karaites. The Reform Jews are supposedly out to reform Judaism, but this is not inconsistent with the myriad of additional commandments and stipulates issued by the rabbis over the years, and the radical textual relativism employed 2,500 to 1500 years ago to keep the Sadduceas and Karaites at bay were in many ways instrumental in justifying Conservative Judaism.
Whats more many of the arguments used to disspell Christian Missionary "arguments" also apply to the supposed authority of the Talmud and Rabbis- in fact, I abandoned Christianity after a debate with a Jew, but after only another month of talking to him I realised the same arguments he used to convince me that the New Testament was a hoax which relied purely on your having been raised to interpret the world as well as the text in just the way I was enable to make any sense of it at all also applied to the Talmud. When confronted he could not provide adequate responses.
In any case, he was Orthodox, and bemoaned the fact that Judaism is a dying religion, but did not realise that the kinds of arguments and perspectives necessary to salvage it have been historically marginalized- the gentiles have had to deal with waves of schitzophrinics from the jewish population for quite some time- Jaques Derrida clearly owed something to the Talmud. If Judaism is to survive, it must resort to the fringe movements, yet this poses a large danger of dissintegration, however I think that as time progresses all other alternatives will be gradually eliminated, eventually Judaism will be reduced to a cluster of fringe groups
Whats more many of the arguments used to disspell Christian Missionary "arguments" also apply to the supposed authority of the Talmud and Rabbis- in fact, I abandoned Christianity after a debate with a Jew, but after only another month of talking to him I realised the same arguments he used to convince me that the New Testament was a hoax which relied purely on your having been raised to interpret the world as well as the text in just the way I was enable to make any sense of it at all also applied to the Talmud. When confronted he could not provide adequate responses.
In any case, he was Orthodox, and bemoaned the fact that Judaism is a dying religion, but did not realise that the kinds of arguments and perspectives necessary to salvage it have been historically marginalized- the gentiles have had to deal with waves of schitzophrinics from the jewish population for quite some time- Jaques Derrida clearly owed something to the Talmud. If Judaism is to survive, it must resort to the fringe movements, yet this poses a large danger of dissintegration, however I think that as time progresses all other alternatives will be gradually eliminated, eventually Judaism will be reduced to a cluster of fringe groups