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34. Brooklyn. NY → FL → MA → NJ → NY ⇢ FL (hopefully). Born Jewish ✡︎. Roman Catholic ☩. Between conservative and counterrevolutionary.

𐤃𐤁.

𝙿𝙰𝚅𝙻𝚅𝚂.

[D.E. @tkdylan]

“Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.”

— Václav Havel, letter to Communist Party of Czechoslovakia general secretary Gustáv Husak, 8 April 1975

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@kan_immanuel I’m not sure what I’m trying to answer, though.

[D.E. @tkdylan]

My genuine opinion of Judaism is that it has many problematic elements, such as a lack of a natural law tradition, or very little in the way of theology—which is why I’m a Catholic. But it’s also not the left-wing cult that anti-Semites or left-wing Jews make the faith out to be.

[Lahav Harkov @LahavHarkov]

The New York Times discovers some Jews do not think that Judaism and Tikkun Olam are the same thing as progressive politics and they are ON IT!!

Like really, we know there are a lot of Jews at the Times. Did no editor look askance at this bizarre item?
https://t.co/XDcDa5Z36v

[D.E. @tkdylan]

@kan_immanuel ...for it?

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@kan_immanuel So you deny the Oral Law?

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@kan_immanuel Well, there’s the whole Oral Law thing...

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@FreeManDespair @FieldSpeakerZDQ Ha! Touché.

[D.E. @tkdylan]

@FreeManDespair @FieldSpeakerZDQ Oh no, I meant the chain of yeshivos. https://t.co/fhQak2tVos

[D.E. @tkdylan]

@FieldSpeakerZDQ @FreeManDespair Yes, but revealed by what means?

Anyway, I’m gonna have to have a discussion with my dad and my rabbeim about this 😤 Chofetz Chaim should have educated me in Jewish natural law philosophy

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@FreeManDespair @ByzCat Oh, right, sorry. I need more sleep.

[D.E. @tkdylan]

@FreeManDespair @ByzCat Moreh Nevuchim was never condemned?

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@BMcGrewvy For Jews without a solid commitment to orthodoxy, yes, but I think for modern liberal Jews it’s about an instinctive reaction to Christianity.

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@FreeManDespair @ByzCat Interesting, I need to read this teshuvah.

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@VNudnik Hm...

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@Murmurs16477916 Nope.

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During the COVID-19 pandemic here in New York City, the Episcopal Diocese of New York refused to collaborate with an evangelical organization to set up a field hospital because the latter group required its own employees to adhere to Christian sexual morality. It’s not Christian.

[Jack Jenkins @jackmjenkins]

BREAKING: The Episcopal Church has announced it will end its decades-old partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as refugees by the Trump admin. https://t.co/fj7Ktt5f30

[D.E. @tkdylan]

@FieldSpeakerZDQ @FreeManDespair Why not?

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@kan_immanuel @BMcGrewvy Not really.

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@kan_immanuel Huh?

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@kan_immanuel @BMcGrewvy Well yes, but that’s not a tautology.

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@FreeManDespair @ByzCat Okay, but the works of Maimonides were put into cherem for a time!

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@asbestosman8 @yo101 True! But it’s a matter that requires some delicacy.

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@BMcGrewvy I think Jewish progressivism is born of an alienation from the Western tradition.