Border Lines: Introduction (2)

[twistedapple]

In the end--at least in the end of late antiquity--rabbinic Judaism refused the option of becoming a religion, another species of the kind that Christianity offered ... Judaism is not and has not been, since early in the Christian era a "religion" in the sense of an orthodoxy whereby heterodox views, even very strange opinions,* would make one an

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[graymalkn]

which is simply an analytic statement and therefore tautologous

But isn't that a bit like saying that there's nothing about the color blue, other than the wavelength, that distinguishes it from green? Or that the only difference between atheists and theists is that theists believe in god? It might be analytic, but that doesn't keep it from being relevant.

[dogfog]

The Moshichist Lubavitchers may not be fully ostracized, indeed maybe be associated with freely, but they are widely regarded with suspicion at the very least.

[twistedapple]

Yes, but so are Marianists within the Catholic Church. There's a big difference between suspicion and accusations of heresy.