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The Revenge of the Blue Collar White Guy
Not to be Harmonized
“So according to Christ, the rabbis had been supplanting the teaching of the Word of God for the sake of their traditions, and they had been doing this for centuries [Mark 7:6-13]. To be clear, what Jesus is talking about here is a gradually forming Talmud.”
American Milk and Honey, pp. 47-48
No Need, Thanks
Jesus and the Talmud
“Replacing the Temple system with the tradition of the elders resulted in what might be called the triumph of Pharisaism, and the Talmud is the monument to that triumph. Prior to the judgment on Jerusalem, they already had a few centuries of a wrong-footed head start; the traditions that Jesus so violently rejected were the traditions of the first half of the Talmudic stream. Indeed, the Talmudic traditions of the elders were the reason why Jerusalem was judged so severely.”
American Milk and Honey, pp. 49-50
Not Denominational
“Many Christians naively believe that Orthodox Jews are basically on the same page with Christians, only they are running one testament short. This kind of superficial treatment of Judaism and Christianity reduces everything to whether you say ‘Merry Christmas’ or ‘Happy Hanukkah.’ Do you put up Christmas lights, or do you light a menorah? Many Christians, particularly some in the dispensational tradition, regard our differences with the Jews as extreme denominational differences, but still somehow within the pale. But modern Judaism is not the religion of the Old Testament. It is something else entirely. It is not the biblical faith with Jesus left out.”
American Milk and Honey, pp. 47-48
A Christian Take on Conspiracy Thought
Introduction: The last few years have seen an explosion of jokes about conspiracy thinking. People are advertising for new conspiracy theories pretty regularly now because their old ones are ...
But Enough About Hamas
“If Christians over here, purporting to have a biblical worldview, start expressing their sympathy with the open skunks because they are convinced that the hidden skunks are just as bad, then it does not astonish me at all that people don’t want to listen to us.”
American Milk and Honey, p. 44
Project 2025 Letters
Letter to the Editor: Probably not the first letter about the Kings Hall podcast from the Ogden guys. Two things that they state in their podcast and I'm curious if they reflect the truth.Firstly, ...
The Real and the Fake
“I believe that Jews need Christ in order to be forgiven for their sins, and that if they die without Christ, then they die unforgiven. And I am well aware that in some quarters the mere embrace of such positions makes you de facto antisemitic. But the fact that I would be falsely charged with antisemitism does not make real antisemitism nonexistent.”
American Milk and Honey, p. 40
Where Dank Right Reviling Goes
Introduction: Coming straight to the point, right wing reviling goes where all revilers do, which is straight into the Abyss. Alexander Solzhenitsyn once made the telling point that the line ...