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I'm a person of Jewish descent who became Born Again several years ago, but who had serious problems with Protetsant theology as well as with my own selfishness and rebelliousness, an as a result, backslid repeatedly until finally rejecting Christ.
Well, I can't hide from the Truth, and so I have rededicated myself to the Christ who has never left me despite my might sinning. He has welcomed me back, indeed let me know that I had never truly left.
This is an amazing thing.
As I've stated a few times, I am meeting with a priest at my church to begin the RCIA. What amazing things I have found in the Catholic Church! Some of the things I love are the Church's stand against many Liberal cause celebres such as abortion and homosexual behavior.
Here's the meat of my question (finally!):
From what I have been studying, I feel that I might be happiest as a Traditional Catholic.
However, everywhere I go to learn more about Traditional Catholicism I see a major emphasis against today's Jews and modern Judaism.
As a andult, before I came to Christ, I studied Judaism and was appalled at some of the things I found in Rabbinical teachings. I was amazed to see how much of what we consider Jewish today (i.e. - yarmulkes, all-white tzitzit, no cheeseburgers, etc.) is actually the creation of Rabbis - in some cases acting in contradiction of Torah.
And so I sought to be a good, Torah believing Jew while rejecting Talmud. What a hard row to hoe! Rabbinic Judaism has defined itself as the only valid Judaism today. Sure, there are the Karaites, who reject the Talmud as man's invention, but they are a miniscule sect with relatively very few in America.
I am also saddened by the fact that so many prominent names in Socialism, Communism, Secularism, Atheism, Buddhism, Liberalism, Gay Rights, Abortion, Anarchism, etc. are Jewish. I cringe whenever Abe Foxman of the ADL complains about ridiculous things, and whenever I see a Jew speaking for the ACLU. And I do think that the charge of anti-semitism has been thrown around so much as to begin to seem silly. Of course, I still acknowledge the vast number of truly anti-semitic attacks which have been occurring in France and other nations.
To disagree with Jews is not anti-semitic, and to disagree with Zionism is not anti-semitic. Neither is proselytizing Jews an anti-semitic behavior. IMHO, of course.
But I still can't help but be made uncomfortable by such a strong feeling against Jews which I see in many Traditional Catholic websites.
I am a Jew, and really cannot ever stop being a Jew. Not religiously, of course, but culturally, ethnically, etc. I am not a "self-hating Jew." In Christ I have found peace and happiness such as I have never known before. It can be a difficult place to be. But I have to feel that, as a Jew, I would still be welcomed as a true follower of Christ and as a true Catholic. I am disturbed by reading how many Catholics so readily assume that Jewish converts to Catholicism do so for false reasons and are not really Catholic.
I'm a person of Jewish descent who became Born Again several years ago, but who had serious problems with Protetsant theology as well as with my own selfishness and rebelliousness, an as a result, backslid repeatedly until finally rejecting Christ.
Well, I can't hide from the Truth, and so I have rededicated myself to the Christ who has never left me despite my might sinning. He has welcomed me back, indeed let me know that I had never truly left.
This is an amazing thing.
As I've stated a few times, I am meeting with a priest at my church to begin the RCIA. What amazing things I have found in the Catholic Church! Some of the things I love are the Church's stand against many Liberal cause celebres such as abortion and homosexual behavior.
Here's the meat of my question (finally!):
From what I have been studying, I feel that I might be happiest as a Traditional Catholic.
However, everywhere I go to learn more about Traditional Catholicism I see a major emphasis against today's Jews and modern Judaism.
As a andult, before I came to Christ, I studied Judaism and was appalled at some of the things I found in Rabbinical teachings. I was amazed to see how much of what we consider Jewish today (i.e. - yarmulkes, all-white tzitzit, no cheeseburgers, etc.) is actually the creation of Rabbis - in some cases acting in contradiction of Torah.
And so I sought to be a good, Torah believing Jew while rejecting Talmud. What a hard row to hoe! Rabbinic Judaism has defined itself as the only valid Judaism today. Sure, there are the Karaites, who reject the Talmud as man's invention, but they are a miniscule sect with relatively very few in America.
I am also saddened by the fact that so many prominent names in Socialism, Communism, Secularism, Atheism, Buddhism, Liberalism, Gay Rights, Abortion, Anarchism, etc. are Jewish. I cringe whenever Abe Foxman of the ADL complains about ridiculous things, and whenever I see a Jew speaking for the ACLU. And I do think that the charge of anti-semitism has been thrown around so much as to begin to seem silly. Of course, I still acknowledge the vast number of truly anti-semitic attacks which have been occurring in France and other nations.
To disagree with Jews is not anti-semitic, and to disagree with Zionism is not anti-semitic. Neither is proselytizing Jews an anti-semitic behavior. IMHO, of course.
But I still can't help but be made uncomfortable by such a strong feeling against Jews which I see in many Traditional Catholic websites.
I am a Jew, and really cannot ever stop being a Jew. Not religiously, of course, but culturally, ethnically, etc. I am not a "self-hating Jew." In Christ I have found peace and happiness such as I have never known before. It can be a difficult place to be. But I have to feel that, as a Jew, I would still be welcomed as a true follower of Christ and as a true Catholic. I am disturbed by reading how many Catholics so readily assume that Jewish converts to Catholicism do so for false reasons and are not really Catholic.