As a Ashkenazic Jewish "mamzerah" who comes from a Crypto-Jewish and Messianic Jewish, and Frankish-Gaelic-Slavic and Spanish (Sephardic?) Catholic (Roman and Byzantine) background; and having my eyes opened by 9/11 and doing a lot of learning about and research on Mohammedism (Islam), I know of what I speak. As for Mormonism, same thing with Mohammedism, except I'd heard a lot and read Under the Banner of Heaven and have been to a Mormon (Secular, Non Orthodox (Non FLDS)) church. I am also currently attending a Roman Catholic school- my grandaunt Bern's alma mater, in fact. By the way, her brother Aloysius Ignatius "Steve" Allen and aunt Agnes G. "Sr. M. Rosalita" Reilly (OSM) were clergy in the Roman Catholic Church.
Catholicism (perhaps excepting Byzantine Catholicism to some careful extent), Mormonism, "Rabbin"ical Judaism, and Mohammedism are all on the same vein: they are all cults. For example:
Catholicism (perhaps excepting Byzantine Catholicism to some careful extent), Mormonism, "Rabbin"ical Judaism, and Mohammedism are all on the same vein: they are all cults. For example:
- All add to The Scriptures. Roman Catholicism and any denomination below Conservative Judaism deny TaNaKH (Torah, Nevi'im, Ketuvim, v'Hadashah) as the Direct, Dictated, Written-Down-As-Instructed Word of God. In my Religious Studies classes and in the Reform Jewish Pittsburgh Platform, Tanakh has been called anything from "man's response to experiencing [or to an experience with] God]" and a mix of truth and myths and legends (Roman Catholic), to (and I quote from the document to which this blog entry's title links): "a system of training the Jewish people for its mission during its national life in Palestine...[as] all such Mosaic and rabbinical laws as regulate diet, priestly purity and dress originated in ages and under influences of ideas altogether foreign to our present mental and spiritual state...."
- As for Haredi ("Orthodox") and Conservative Judaism, Mohammedism, and Mormonism; they add Talmud (and as I said, any denomination below these will group Tanakh with Talmud as "originated in ages and under influences of ideas altogether foreign to our present mental and spiritual state"), the Qur'an (and Googling it would be enough; but read this at your own risk: I am not touching it if I don't have to), and the Book of Mormon (Moroni) (as I said about the Qur'an, so I say about the Book of Moroni. By the way, see Galatians 1:6-12).
- Catholicism adds to the very Tanakh to they attempt to skewer: i.e., the Apocrypha and Pseudographia (which both the Council of Yavneh (Jamnia) (80 AD (BCE)) and the Council of Nicea (325 AD (BCE)) rejected. Only the LXX (Septuagint) included the Apocrypha and Pseudographia as part of Tanakh. The Apocrypha and Pseudographia could be seen as Talmud Yavani (the Greek Talmud)).
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