Reply #4: Oh, I suppose there are ignorants everyplace, including among DUers [View All]

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If that person ever bothered to really read the old testament and to learn about Judaism, s/he will know that the main difference between Judaism and Christianity is that one does not have to believe in god, and certainly does not have to accept a mere mortal as one's god and savior to be a Jew.

The next main difference is that the Torah - the rules that were given to the Israelites while wondering in the desert after the Exodus - was given to them to live by. Judaism wants people to live life to the fullest, while on this earth, alive and kicking, not live in misery hoping for some kind of a miracle in the after life waiting for someone's resurrection.

And then, of course, are all the laws that command people to take care of orphans and widows, of the sick and the elderly, of the underdogs which, I think, is important to most of us, to those of us who are proud to be labeled "liberal."

If all one cares about self and the poor and the elderly be damned, then I can see such a person rejecting such commands from the Old Testament.