Paradosis wrote:True enough and I think its a good thing when a Jew sees his erroneous ways and sincerely converts to Christianity. But Christians should not be blind to the normal hostility of Judaic teachings and attitudes.
I agree totally. Unfortunately, I think many today are either so (mistakenly) guilt-ridden, politically-correct, or quasi-zionist (due usually to bad eschatological beliefs) that the Jews are seen as capable of doing no wrong by many Christians. I used to frequent a nice Protestant Forum, for instance, that had an entire section devoted to Jewish concerns, and 2 or 3 more devoted to Jewish/Christian concerns.
As far as I'm concerned, such people represent the Judaizers of our age.
There's a psychology professor at California State University-Long Beach who has written a series of books dealing with Judaism within a modern evolutionary perspective which I highly recommend. Although there is a lot of issues outside of religion, he does deal at length with the conflict of Judaism vs. Christianity.
The three books are:
"The Culture of Critique"
"Separation and Its Discontents: Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Anti-Semitism"
"A People That Shall Dwell Alone: Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy, with Diaspora Peoples."
Prof. Kevin MacDonald
http://www.csulb.edu/~kmacd/books.htm
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