I have no beef with Christians. If I did, I'd have a beef with half my family. For crying out loud, I'm a Masonic Knight Templar -- and I had to swear to defend the Christian religion to do that.* Although it's often hidden in the fine print of history, lots of Christians have defended my people over the centuries, and I'd happily return the favor.
My problem is with people who call themselves "Messianic Jews" and who have "synagogues" they call, for instance, "Shaarei Yeshua" (שערי ישוע, "The Gates of Jesus").
You may as well call yourselves Jews for Jesus and go back to pestering people who look Jewish on the sidewalks of Chicago.** If you look to Jesus as your Messiah then you're not Jewish. And you're not fooling real Jews about it.
Sorry, I just had to get that off my chest.
* Also a Knight Rose Croix of Heredom, but the obligation isn't quite as stringent. I did have to turn down an invitation to join the Royal Order of Scotland, because I had to state that I was a Trinitarian Christian and give the name and location of the church to which I belonged...
** Yes, personal experience, 1987.
I take it Jews for Jesus are even more annoying than Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses?
If you look Jewish, yes. They don't bother anyone else.
Their mission is to correct the wrong-thinking Jews who don't believe Jesus was (is or will be) the foretold Messiah son of David. The method is to act like Jews in all other ways, including ritualistically (the local group is having High Holy Day services, for instance, and they have a seder at Passover). "Look, we're just like you, well, except for the whole Jesus thing."
In other words, they're frauds.
I should note that I don't have any trouble with Mormons or Jehovah's Witnesses. The mezzuzah on my doorpost seems to scare them away.
Answering the door stark, staring nekkid, holding a dagger always worked for me.... ;)
Pictures or it didn't happen ;)
Bloody dagger?
:)
No and no -- c'mon, I was havin' to improvise.
Christianity IS Judaism, or an offshoot of it, or you're not doing it right. Judaism is NOT Christianity, and that is the point!
Good lord, what a bunch of maroons.
ms X: There are a couple dozen places where one can stab him/herself non-fatally.(more on a fat person) When someone sees you do that, it shuts down all conversation, forever. Trust me on that. It's worth seeing the look on their faces to have a small wound here and there.