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To: Brumar89 who wrote (856672)	5/13/2015 10:20:01 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574327

"Being true to Christ doesn't mean being silent when people like you and your friends lie about us." No; it means feeding the poor, healing the sick, sheltering the homeless, and loving your neighbors, even if they are a transsexual undocumented Muslim immigrant and a lesbian Black-Asian Buddhist. "these areas are only now being evangelized. " Here's an idea... don't. The Book of Jonah includes a number of themes but evangelizing is not one of them. Jonah is not asked to convert the residents of Nineveh to Judaism but only in saving them from punishment if they fail to repent from their sins. This corresponds to the Jewish attitude that salvation is achieved through noble action rather than through the acceptance of a particular religious doctrine. This idea finds its classical expression in the Talmudic statement that asserts that all the righteous - whether Jews or non-Jews – have a share in the World to Come. The litmus test for salvation is not religious homogeneity but virtue. Accordingly, there is no need to actively convert non-Jews to Judaism. The prophet Zekhariah, likewise, imagines a future time when all people will come to acknowledge the One God, but that does not necessarily entail the practice of Judaism. In sum, Judaism wants the world to be good and does not need the world to be Jewish. Rabbi Wayne Allen jewishvaluesonline.org