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patrick1
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« on: April 27, 2011, 11:12:37 PM »
« edited: April 27, 2011, 11:15:28 PM by patrick1 »

So, why don't Jews sacrifice lambs anymore?

We can't without the Temple.

If, hypothetically, God had said, "Dont wear the color green, "  the Talmud would have a set of 50 instructions on how you're to wear the color blue and wallow around in and glorify the 50 rules of wearing blue it had created and pat each other on the back for abiding by the 50 rules of the color blue, when all God said was,  "Dont wear the color green. "  

That is one of the most ridiculous distortions of the Talmud I have ever heard, including the anti-Semitic stuff that's been passed around.  There is nothing of that in the Talmud - it is a codification of decisions, not the rules for the sake of rules that you claim it to be.  If you're going to try and be subtly anti-Semitic, try to be more subtle.

How is this antisemitic? As you say, these are decisions that were based on the law? Interpretations of law (Human or divine) are bound to have meandering arguments and particularly so in the middle ages. Catholic medieval philosophical arguments; typified by scholasticism, were frequently ridiculous. The most infamous example being- how many angels can dance on the head of a needle? I don't think that pointing out that many of these arguments were mundane and cumbersome is in any way anti Catholic.

You seem to be presuming antisemitism. I respectfully think you need to put it back in the deck.
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