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**dietpillxanaxaxx** · 07-15-2012, 07:31 PM

Regarding his magazine's political orientation, he said: "It is hard to understand a religious person who votes Democrat... Maimonides, the great Jewish philosopher, said there are ten levels of charity, tzedakah. The highest level is making a person self-sufficient, which sounds like what the GOP wants to do. So he's commenting on what he thinks Christians ought to beleive? I've never met a Jewish person who welcomed a Christian telling what he thought Jewish people beleive. Most Jews will tell you that the Christian Old Testament is a poor copy of the original and that Christians get a huge portion of it wrong. Now this guy is telling me what Christians beleive? Did Maimonides take into account the Gospels or the other books of the New Testament into account when he coined his philosophy?

07-15-2012, 07:31 PM	#4
dietpillxanaxaxx Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 374 Senior Member	Regarding his magazine's political orientation, he said: "It is hard to understand a religious person who votes Democrat... Maimonides, the great Jewish philosopher, said there are ten levels of charity, tzedakah. The highest level is making a person self-sufficient, which sounds like what the GOP wants to do. So he's commenting on what he thinks Christians ought to beleive? I've never met a Jewish person who welcomed a Christian telling what he thought Jewish people beleive. Most Jews will tell you that the Christian Old Testament is a poor copy of the original and that Christians get a huge portion of it wrong. Now this guy is telling me what Christians beleive? Did Maimonides take into account the Gospels or the other books of the New Testament into account when he coined his philosophy?
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