Pale Rider said:
So the old testiment is jewish. I didn't know that, and I'd like some proof of that before I do. Even so, it wouldn't make any difference to me as a Christian. I believe God created the heavens and the earth... "in the begining", where the Bible starts, "at the begining".
I've asked around and sure enough, the Old Testament is Jewish.
How old are you? How could you not know something that basic about your own religion? And how can you not care?
I will never, ever, ever, understand religious people. To have such willful, proud ignorance.
You know who you remind me of? This man I knew back in my bar days.
I'm from Rhode Island and about 15 years or so ago there was this HUGE court case that was the case that stopped prayers at public school graduations. What happened was, this Jew had two kids in a local public school. He got pissed at the first graduation because he had to sit there and listen to a priest give a convocation about Jesus Christ. So he complained.
The next year, they had a priest and a Rabbi. They didn't get it. So he sued. And won. No more prayers at public school graduations.
The day the case was decided, it was big news. I was siting in the bar, and as the atheist I am, I didn't give a shit. But the bartender and a customer were lamenting it, and I couldn't keep my mouth shut so I asked the customer, who was in his 50's, why he was so upset about the decision. They were blaming it on the fact that the guy was Jewish, even though he sued to prevent a Rabbi from giving a prayer, too. As is typical, they knew nothing about the case but were bitching anyway.
So I explained the history of the case, and that the man didn't just sue to prevent a Christian prayer, but ANY prayer, and he totally ignored me and asked "Why would a Jew care about a prayer to Jesus Christ?".
I was dumbfounded. 50 years old and he had no idea what a Jew is.
You religious people are like that. Willfully ignorant. Yes, half of your Bible is JEWISH!