Tea Party leader and talk host Glenn Beck is under attack again by left-wing Jewry for this recent on-air comment: "There are the Orthodox rabbis, and there are the Reform rabbis. Reformed (sic) rabbis are generally political in nature. It's almost like radicalized Islam where it is just -- radicalized Islam is less about religion than it is about politics.”Re: "Beck is Right! 'Secular' Judaism is like Radical Islam!" by Rev. Ted Pike
Rev. Pike continually returns to the old right wing lunacy (see footnote 402 on page 360 of Judaism Discovered), that Talmud-true "Orthodox" rabbis are to be preferred to "left wing secular Reform" rabbis.
This insanity, together with his praise for pied piper Glenn Beck, the greed-is-good apostle of Russian-American atheist Alissa Rosenbaum ("Ayn Rand"), whose money-worshipping doctrines guided Alan Greenspan's Federal Reserve policies, is such a palimpsest of confusion and error as to be breath-taking.
Moreover, who could be more "political" among rabbis than the powerful and strictly Orthodox Chabad-Lubavitch cult?
Rev. Pike is plagued by a double-mind which he disseminates nation-wide, and which results in destructive confusion-mongering.
Does anyone really think anymore, or do we just accept sound-bites and jargon without comprehension or analysis?
Mr. Pike, by endorsing the mountebank Mr. Beck, is strongly implying that rabbis who do not hold rigidly to the Talmud ("Reform rabbis") are vastly more dangerous than rabbis who do ("Orthodox").
This is utter buncombe, calculated to mislead.
Michael Hoffman
BECK IS RIGHT! "SECULAR" JUDAISM IS LIKE RADICAL ISLAMBy Rev. Ted Pike
24 Feb 11
Jewish attack groups quickly demonized Beck's remarks, alleging that his comparison of the Jewish supremacist rabbis of Reform (secular) Judaism to Islamic supremacists merits immediate apology. ADL head Abe Foxman said Beck's remarks are "beyond the pale" and "discount the faith" of Reform Jews. Yet Beck is getting very, very close to the truth. Jewish supremacism, epitomized by the secularist Reform rabbis who want Beck fired from FOX News, is actually much more of a threat to civilization than is radical Islam...
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Ohhh. It's all so confusing but starting to make sense, and making me suspect the Orthodox Jews have the real power. I have seen things that Hassids have been staging some anti-Zionism protests, which seemed odd, and recently a pro-life activist (a Catholic priest) sent out an email praising the Hassids for being pro-life and joining in some pro-life event. Prop masters. Giving themself a good image. Maybe so that if people start getting annoyed at undue Jewish power, the Orthodox Jews can blame the liberal Jews while they come out smelling like a rose. But I don't know, takes a scholar to even begin to figure it out...
ReplyDeleteReform Jews--just like 'liberal' Christians: are what happens when you discount radical/extreme faith.
ReplyDeleteIf you recognize that Judaism is fundamentally a group survival strategy, you can understand the difference between reformed and orthodox judaism. Orthodox Judaism believes in a literal intepretation of torah, whereas refomed judaism does not.
ReplyDeleteBoth sects are still dedicated to a jewish group survival strategy. The difference between them is that reformed jewish don't rely on a literal interpretation of Torah for guidance.
As a group survival strategy, reformed jewish rely more on Diversity (victim cultism) as their main survival strategy, whereas orthodox rely more on Torah inspiration for their survival guidance.
Dear Yowsah
ReplyDeleteOrthodox Judaism most certainly does NOT adhere to a literal (“Pshat") interpretation of the Torah SheBichtav (Pentateuch).
You obviously have not ready my book ("Judaism Discovered”) and are unaware of rabbinic distortion and nullification of the Old Testament as embodied in the exegetical methods they employ: gezarah shava and Remez, Derush and Sod.
Sincerely,
Michael Hoffman