To respect a religion or values that are completely contrary to your own values
simply means you have no respect for your own. To respect means to show honor
or esteem for---how can you show honor and esteem for what is completely
contrary or hostile to your deepest spiritual beliefs. To pretend to show respect
in such a case is the deepest hypocrisy. Talmudic Judaism teaches
that Jesus Christ is not the Son of God. Talmudism teachs that Jesus Christ
is a false Messiah. Talmudic Judaism teaches that Jesus is not the
Saviour of mankind. How can I, as a Christian, ever honor or esteem such a religion and such values
without being a hypocrit or denying my own values.
The Moslem Koran teaches essentially the same thing. How can I, as a
Christian, ever honor or esteem such a religion without hishonoring and disrespting my own. How can you, hal, as
a believer in Talmudic Judaism, honor or esteem true Christianity. Chritianity
teaches that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, the saviour of mankind.
The only was you can honestly esteem or honor that belief is by rejecting
the techings of Talmudic Judaism. Otherwise, any pretended esteem or honor
is nothing but hypocrisy--the same as a Christian pretending to honor and
esteem Judaism.
In conclusion, I must repeat that he who shows respect to a religion that
contradicts his own is disrespecting his own---it is hypocrisy.
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Now, I would like to put aside hal the member of Talmudic judaism and
talk about hal the human being created in the image and likeness of God.
The principles and religious beliefs of Talmudic Judaism are traditional
values imposed upon children in their youth. These religious and social
values have a tendency to contruct a sense of reality that homogenizes
the individual personality into the traditional values. This, however,
is only a social contruct and not reality. These values have been
supposed imposed upon the real hal Jordan but they are not the real hal.
The warmth that an individual feels during the celebration of holdays,
the memories of loving smiles of family members associated with these
celebrations and the many other subconscious formations that occur during
this period, have a tendency to confuse the real hal with the cultural
and social hal. All peoples of all cultures have similar experiences
These socially constructed realities are not, however, reality. There
is still the objective reality that exists outside this soically constructed
reality--absolute reality. Beneath the layers of these socially and culturally
constructed realities there is the real hal, the socially and culturally
naked hal Jordan.
I would like to speak to this real hal--the naked hal.
The real hal Jordan was created in the image and likenss of God. The
real hal Jordan is so imporatant that the Son of the Eternal God gave
his life that hal could find eternal life, truth and reality.
Jesus saw and loved hal Jordan as he hung dying own the cross.
My own love for hal Jordan is such that if his salvation depended open it,
I would be willing to give all of my wealth and even deprive my famile
for the salvation of hal.
I would also hope that my love would be such that I could give up my life
for the salvation of hal.
I do not hate hal Jordan--I love hal. What I do hate is Talmudic Judaism
that wants to destroy all the hal Jordans in the world by depriving them
of the only source of reality and Salvation--Jesus Christ crucified and
sacrificed for the sins of manking.
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