From: pcompton@hebb.uoregon.edu (Paul E. Compton)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish
Subject: Re: Send Direct Email Back to Missionaries
Followup-To: soc.culture.jewish
Date: 15 Dec 1992 04:23:56 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Psych - U of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403
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In article <1992Dec14.185333.7662@cirrus.com>, chrism@cirrus.com (Chris
Metcalfe) wrote:

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> Since "Buchar" answered somewhat emotionally to the replies he received
> in scj, I think that everyone should send him email directly, expressing
> their dislike of his activities.  My guess is that he'll get the point.
> 
> This should be a regular thing when the missionaries dump on scj.
> 
> -- Chris Metcalfe

A simple approach: email the (enclosed) posting from Len Moskowitz to
our friend ucakrvb@ucl.ac.uk (Vijay Bhuchar).  I did.  It felt good!!!

> I think this following excerpt is an appropriate rejoinder to our rather
> rude evangelistic invaders:
> 
> 
> 	     "Leaving Christianity and Becoming B'nai Noah"
> 	    (Excerpted from The Jewish Voice, December 1992)
> 
> ATHENS, TENN -- One of the men at last month's seventh annual Emmanuel
> Conference was the son of a fire-and-brimstone Baptist preacher who had
> told his daughter-in-law to grab her children and flee from her husband
> who had surely "gone to the devil."  Hesitantly, an elderly woman softly
> related that her children no longer speak to her because she has
> rejected Jesus.  These former Christians joined 150 others who had come
> to this Bible Belt city for what was in effect a B'nai Noah convention.
> 
>      From as far away as Washington State, Texas, and Indiana, they had
> come to hear the word of G-d and to find truth in their lives from
> rabbis.  They accept only Orthodox Judaism as valid, and believe their
> obligation is to abide by the Biblical seven commandments of the Sons of
> Noah, also known as the Noahide Laws.
> 
>      Many have trod the same path as the leader of the movement, Rev. J.
> David Davis, a former Baptist minister in this town, who decided, after
> 20 years of study that "Christian theology cannot stand up under the
> microscope of Torah."  These men and women have traced the historical
> origins of Christianity and found that many Christian Bible teachings
> and stories devolve from pagan origins and early Church efforts to
> appeal to the masses.  Jesus, they find, could not have said most of
> what is attributed to him in the Christian Bible.
> 
>      Searching for man's earliest belief systems, they usually come
> across information regarding the Noahide Laes and seek out rabbis
> willing to teach them.  Like Rev. Davis, whose Emmanuel Baptist Church
> is now the Emmanuel B'nai Noah Congregation, most see no reason to
> convert to Judaism.  They simply become B'nai Noah.
> 
> ...
> 
> (Non-Jews who are interested in the B'nai Noah movement can contact Rev.
> Davis in Athens, Tennessee.)
> 
> 
> -- 
> Len Moskowitz
> moskowit@panix.com 

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