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To: c.horn who wrote (19446)2/24/2000 1:06:00 PM
From: long-gone  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 63513
 
Anyone up for some thought(along other lines) today?:
Religious Freedom and Private Property Rights
by Tibor R. Machan
The Baptists believe that Jews ought to convert to Christianity. They think both the New and Old Testaments implore Jews to become Christians, and they are now gearing up to proselytize vigorously to reach Jews to this end.
Jewish leaders find this offensive. They believe the Baptists are actually misleading people into thinking that one can be a Christian and a Jew, at once. They have written to the Baptist leaders saying this. They have, in effect, charged the Baptists with false advertising or fraudulent preaching.

Now this is not a new issue. The particulars involving Baptists and Jews occurred once before, back in 1996. And, of course, throughout human history there have always been religious conflicts, even major wars, wherein the faithful of one religion tried to covert the faithful of another, even by force. The Spanish Inquisition was perhaps the most notorious effort to this effect, as were the Crusades. In some parts of the globe, this is still a dominant aspect of certain societies.

Most of these conflicts were and are still exacerbated by
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