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1 hour ago, Trutharchivist said:

I'll be honest here, it's all nice and well to say that, but just today my thoughts drifted to two occasions where Christians attempted to force Jews to abandon their faith. As a matter of fact, both were public arguments regarding matters of faith, and in at least one of them it's widely believed that the Jew won - and then had to flee the country for fear of prosecution.

Un-christlike, perhaps. But Christians did show a tendency of working this way.

And now I may have antagonised you along with 80% of the Shard. So, well, maybe I should accept that this isn't supposed to be inherent in Christianity any more than it is in Judaism. No one here tried to force me to convert, after all.

So, sorry for the harsh reply, but I'm not sure I was overly surprised to learn of the Lavater incident. I guess Christians at the time were simply convinced that if someone is smart they have to agree with them.

Sometimes the thing that makes it most difficult for me to be a Christian is the behaviour, both past and present, of other Christians. The only consolation I can offer is that Yeshua made it clear to those who follow Him that just because they pay lip service to Him doesn't mean He considers them to actually be His followers.

You have every right to be harsh. It should be a lesson to us all that our goal is not conquest and pride of place, but love and humility.

11 minutes ago, Trutharchivist said:

I have no idea how many you missed, you didn't reply since the first one... So it's two at max. Somewhat similarly to our PM (if slightly worse in this case), I'm slow to write those and procrastinate a lot. There should be only one more in this specific series, then it's moving on to Eastern Europe.

I'd better check back in this and read them then! This is a very interesting topic and series 

And about procrastination, I wouldn't know anything about that ... 

11 minutes ago, Trutharchivist said:

One day I might attempt to talk more about Mizrahi Jews, too.

That sounds awesome  No rush, do it when you can, but when you post it just send me a message in case I miss the notification. I should probably send you my regular email as well in case I'm off the Shard for a while, too.

I need to log in again more often. This is very interesting @Trutharchivist  How many of these have I missed?!?

(Also, I promise you, before the end of the weekend I'll have responded to our outstanding PM(s) - I'll try to get it done before the end of today!)

Providing new information is one of the many services we provide 

Huh ... I probably should watch some of those videos at some point then. Though if you're interested in an ... interesting play of some Sith Lords (well, they become Sith Lords ...) check out SFDebris's videos:

• https://sfdebris.com/videos/games/swtorinq.php (Sith Inquisitor, though he steers more Dark Side)
• https://sfdebris.com/videos/games/swtorsw.php (Sith Warrior, and one of his better series, goes for a Grey Sith)

Looking forwards to the future posts!

Very interesting and very cool article, and highlighting a sad element of history that many outside the Jewish community likely don't know about. I'll be interested to read more on this as you post them 

In the words of Senator Palpatine, "We will watch your career with great interest."

... wait, maybe I shouldn't have quoted the bad guy ...