From "Jews and the Christian right: Is the honeymoon over?"
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"'We are particularly offended by the suggestion that the opposite of the religious right is the voice of atheism,' he told his audience. 'We are appalled when 'people of faith' is used in such a way that it excludes us, as well as most Jews, Catholics and Muslims. What could be more bigoted than to claim that you have a monopoly on God and that anyone who disagrees with you is not a person of faith?'

"Much of Yoffie's sermon argued that for many Jews, liberalism is the result of religious values, not their antithesis. Being a liberal believer, he said, 'means believing that religion involves concern for the poor and the needy, and giving a fair shake to all. When people talk about God and yet ignore justice, it just feels downright wrong to us. When they cloak themselves in religion and forget mercy, it strikes us as blasphemy.'

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"Speaking of those who caution him not to disturb the Jewish-evangelical alliance, Foxman says, 'If we cannot disagree, what kind of a friendship is it?'"

Read the rest at Salon.

Over the weekend, I read a great line in a review of Harold Bloom's latest book. "This notion was given bolder expression in a lecture I heard Bloom deliver about how the New Testament was a 'weak misreading' of the Hebrew Bible. I never thought I would hear a professor publicly proclaim - at Yale, no less - the great, private Jewish gripe that in layman's terms might be expressed: Christianity stole our watch and has spent 2,000 years telling us what time it is."

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"Christ, for Bloom, is a betrayal of Jesus the man, Yeshua, who clearly lived inside a Jewish world, trusted in the covenant with Yahweh, did not think the Law was death, and would be appalled at, or at least entirely baffled by, the religion created in his name. Jesus belongs on one side of the Judeo-Christian divide, Christ on the other. Bloom is persuasively aware that the Judeo-Christian tradition is a convenient myth that joins two deeply incompatible religions."

Read the rest of "So Who Is King of the Jews?"

To my disappointment, many of the Christians I've met here, including the wife of a future pastor, are unkind, judgemental, materialistic, and do not accept the beliefs of others. If you're going to claim to be a Christian, try to act like one. Let me give you a few hints: Christ suggested you forgive, not judge others, turn the other cheek, and love your neighbor. Unless they're gay, I suppose. Or they don't agree with you. Then you can persecute them.