Rabbi Jason Miller:
yet the only rabbi they could find to offer a prayer for the 11 Jewish victims in Pittsburgh at the Mike Pence rally was a local Jews for Jesus rabbi? That’s pathetic!
Yes, it’s pathetic… but consider the source Mike Pence america’s leading christianist.
Leave it to the voters to decide on this one…
Epstein, who is Jewish, said in a statement that she invited Jacobs’ prayer “because we must unite as a nation — while embracing our religious differences — in the aftermath of Pennsylvania.” She said anyone attacking her or Pence over the prayer is “guilty of nothing short of religious intolerance and should be ashamed. This was an effort at unity, yet some are trying to create needless division to suit their political goals.”
I can’t think of a clever alternative meaning of GOP, to capture the official party of trolling people with offensive Halloween costumes.
Didn’t Nixon have a rather suspect Rabbi Baruch Korff with a taste for strippers and booze ?
I can’t say I know the differences between Jewish sects, but if I was leading some thing to honor the folks killed I think I’d choose some one from the same sect they were part of.
For what it’s worth, I’ve probably mentioned this in a post before, but worked with a guy that was a very strict christian that after 9-11 posted on his personal blog that he hated that so many people died in that attack that weren’t christian and would now spend an eternity separated from god. That’s when I quit being a christian. I quit believe in god a few years later after reading Bart Ehrman’s book Truth and Fiction in the Da Vinci Code.
Josh has expresssed his opinion on this: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/fake-jews
“He was not invited by the VP’s office to speak on behalf of the Jewish community,” the aide said.
Horseshit. But, nice try.
With Pence sitting on the right hand of God,how can we question him?
“She said anyone attacking her or Pence over the prayer is “guilty of nothing short of religious intolerance and should be ashamed.”
She wrote that out and revised it several times while planning the setup for it…just to make sure she got the “har har, I got your goat” tone of it just exactly perfect.
Is there no end to their chicanery?
“Religious tolerance” does not require tolerating your attempt to impose your religion on me. As was famously said, “your right to swing your arm ends where my nose begins.”
Pence would invite David Duke to give the prayer at a NAACP rally.
I’m pretty sure “Jesus as the Messiah” was a 3:00 am executive order.
Jews for Jesus is triumphalist crap. This is where Jay Sekulow started.
Further, Kellyanne Conway, Pence and the rest are grief stealing. They pretend the attack was not on Jews but an attack on “religious” people. This is a setup for the claim of persecution that xtianists savour and embrace.
The shooter honestly admitted he wanted all Jews to die. These christian dominionists hope to absorb and erase Judaism. They are not allies of the oppressed.
The article, itself, is both wrong and offensive. It refers to “Jews for Jesus” as a branch of Judaism that believes that Jesus was (is) the Messiah. No, that is absolutely untrue; no branch of Judaism believes that and no Jew believes that.
“Jews for Jesus” is a Christian religion that has adopted some Jewish or Jewish-like practices. I think everyone gets to own their own religious -or non-religious - beliefs, and I respect the beliefs of Jews for Jesus, but they are not in any sense Jewish beliefs. This AP article should be withdrawn and rewritten correctly.
This is exactly why the Senate should never convict Trump after impeachment. Pence is even worse than Trump. If he becomes President kiss freedom of religion goodbye. He will try to install a state religion. The man is utterly inflexibly tied to his particular sect. So much so you can argue that he is violates at least three of the 10 commandments with is faux Christianity.
Jews for Jesus is a christianist faith that mimics Judaism in order to proselytize actual Jews. Convert and extinguish. It is deeply offensive and triumphalist.