I Got a Gift of a Trojan Horse!

[leora]

Someone came to my door and said he had a DVD to deliver to $my_legal_first_name $my_legal_last_name. This seemed weird, but okay... He explained it was from a rabbi who wanted to share his beliefs with person with Jews and wanted person with my name to see it, and they weren't asking for any money. This seemed a bit creepy, but I said okay, and

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[leora]

It's kind of like the Chick tracts where the premise of many of the stories is that people don't believe in Jesus because they have never heard of Jesus. This may be true in some parts of the world, but in most of the US, it really isn't.

But I've encountered this before. They pretend to be Jewish, and claim they care about Judaism, and then say that worshiping Jesus isn't incompatible. Then they misinterpret a bunch of pieces of the Torah to try to explain how it makes sense to do so. And they claim that they want everyone to both worship Jesus and follow the Torah... as if following the Torah makes you Jewish, whether or not you worship Jesus. But if they really thought following the commandments in the Torah mattered and was important, they'd find it equally important to preach to Christians that they should start following all of the commandments in the Torah that they regularly ignore, such as keeping kosher and so forth. But they don't. They only try to convert Jews. So, they simply are dishonest.

I'd much rather talk to an honest Christian than a dishonest one. I'd much rather talk to an honest ~anything~ than a dishonest one. Dishonest people just get on my nerves. They happen in every group, of course. There just happen to be groups of Christians who go out of their way to lie to Jews. It's irritating.