Ted Belman. Russia has just outlawed missionizing in order to protect the Russian Orthodox Church. Israel should pass a similar law to protect Judaism. Yes this is a limit on free speech. So what?
Lehava’s Bentzi Gophstain during anti-missionary demonstration
Dozens of activists from the Lehava anti-assimilation organization demonstrated Thursday evening outside of a missionary conference in Jerusalem.
The activists, led by Lehava founder Bentzi Gophstain, attempted to enter the building where the conference was being held, but we’re prevented from doing so by the police.
The missionary event involved both Arab and Jewish youth, attracting attendees with musical performances while disseminating missionary material. The Lehava demonstrators outside of the building warned those planning on entering the “performance” of the event’s religious nature, dissuading some from participating.
Earlier on Thursday, Jerusalem councilman Aryeh King warned that the event constituted a major escalation in missionary activity.
“This represents a major foothold by an organization whose activities are targeting young people, attempting to convert them to [another religion].”
“The fact that the event took place in a municipal complex doesn’t surprise me, I’m sad to say, given the policies of the mayor [who intends] to turn Jerusalem into a multi-cultural city, and hide its uniqueness as the Jewish capital.”
Gophstain slammed Thursday’s missionary event, calling it an open attempt to uproot Judaism.
“What the Christians failed to do to the Jews with the Inquisition they are now doing through the silent Holocaust of missionary [conversion] work. Who would have believed that the Jerusalem municipality would legitimize such a serious event in the holy city?”
Flavian Signature Presentation – Joseph Atwill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UqG8w7ezUQ
@ yamit82:
what do you think of this perspective of “rabbinic judaism” starting at 6:30 to 7:50 appox?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zlj5-iwKueQ
@ Austin:
Thanks for references will check them out.
@ Ted Belman:
@ Austin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-cZncVmtIU
@ yamit82:
I’d read Acharya for years before I found she was really named Dorothy Murdock. She became the pulp fiction rabble rousing Christian conspiracy theorist par excellence. Later she steadied down, and I’ve read a report by Robert Price of Jesus Seminar fame in which he said that he always regarded her work negatively but he read her stuff and it was so wide ranging on so many different facets, fully footnoted, which Murdock had at her fingertips, that it made his brain reel. So he changed his mind about her and concluded that she had matured. Price once delved deeply on H.P.Lovecraft, a foremost Science Fiction writer, mainly mysticism and horror, so his opinions may be dicey. It often turns out to be a waste of time since “The Golden Bough” has it all.
I don’t have the time today to look at the video but will probably tomorrow and thanks for sending it. I had forgotten about Acharya.
I can recommend Mugerditch Mangasarian’s little essay on an ancient Greek waking up in modern times to bells, and seeing people going to church. He questioned them and it was hilarious and recognisable. He was basically an atheist, but ran a Unitarian or maybe Humanist church for many years. A prolific writer. And smart.
I haven’t touched any of this stuff for over 40 years so I may be as off a bit. I found that although I was able to read and collate, I couldn’t put it down in a readable book. I tried for over a year.