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Voltaire2

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7. Depends on your version of Judaism.

Reply to Gothmog (Reply #1)

Thu May 10, 2018, 03:15 PM

May 2018

There are certainly Jewish sects that reject anything that conflicts with the ancient texts. And like their Christian counterparts, those engaged in conflict resolution are forced to create new meanings for those texts, an endless and pointless effort to avoid the obvious.

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