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• Title: Evangelizing: The Good, The Bad, & the Ugly (Essay)
• Author : The Humanist
• Release Date : January 01, 2009
• Genre: Reference,Books,Religion & Spirituality,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 50 KB

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I HAVE OFTEN been called an "evangelical atheist." Technically, evangelism is the Christian practice of proselytizing, of bringing souls to Christ. But for the sake of argument I'm employing the looser definition--evangelizing as an attempt to convert people to another point of view. I was raised an Orthodox Jew, and Jews don't proselytize gentiles. That practice stopped in the fifth century, when the Roman Empire outlawed conversion to Judaism under penalty of death. But Jews do proselytize other Jews. One such early memory took place during a Shabbas (Saturday) walk in Philadelphia with my rabbi. When a man asked us where the nearest subway was, my rabbi in response asked him if he was Jewish. When the man acknowledged that he was, my rabbi refused the request because Jews are not permitted to ride on the Sabbath. My rabbi was "protecting" this Jew from breaking the law. Such a response was consistent with our weekly wait outside the synagogue on Saturday morning until a gentile passed who would turn on the lights for us. (Incidentally, Colin Powell was once a "Shabbas Goy" in New York.) There is no pretense in Judaism that such rules have anything to do with ethical behavior. We are simply separating our tribe from the gentile tribe.

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