What Angers Me, Maybe Especially Because I'm a Messianic Jew

I think about how the Foczkos (Fockos, Foskos), Hanzoks, and other sides of my dad's family (except the Trudn(i)aks, though that is still up to debate whether they) were forced to become Catholic--and the force wasn't always physical, but could be psychological (as you'll discover if you do your research). Seeing records for the Foczkos and Hanzoks on Family Search, I was angered that they were forced, oppressed, hounded after--and they expressed their own anger by, for example, by naming children "Josephus" and "Aurelia" (search "Josephus" and "Marcus Aurelius"), and by naming their only or oldest girls other names than "Maria" (although there were Ashkenazic Jews called "Maria" for "Miriam", and one of my Foczko cousin now holds the variant "Miriama" instead of "Maria" like our cousins of old did).

Yeshua Himself stated, "And whoever will not receive you nor hear your words, when you depart from that house or city, shake off the dust from your feet." (Matthew 10:14) Proselytization is wrong, especially if proselytization is forcible. Putting your faith, beliefs, etc. out there is not wrong; but remember:


"Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers through whom you believed, as the Lord gave to each one?  I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.  Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor." 


Who were the Catholics and others who tried to force us to convert, though we were Anusim who would not believe for the most part?


"Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying:

 ‘These people draw near to Me with their mouth,
And honor Me with their lips,
But their heart is far from Me.
And in vain they worship Me,

Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ ”"


"“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. ²² Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ ²³ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’"

For Sacramento, Concord, and Especially Silver Spring

Since you all (especially Silver Spring) looked at my blog for the last eight hours, here's a blog entry for you:

    

Concord, California arrived from google.com on "The Nicole Factor: And Erica Levy Gets Geraldo Rivera? As I've Said Before...." by searching for erica and geraldo rivera.

15:21:55 -- 1 hour 55 mins ago

    

Silver Spring, Maryland arrived on "The Nicole Factor".

14:28:30 -- 2 hours 48 mins ago

    

Silver Spring, Maryland arrived on "The Nicole Factor".

11:37:29 -- 5 hours 39 mins ago

    

Silver Spring, Maryland arrived on "The Nicole Factor".

08:50:44 -- 8 hours 26 mins ago

    

Sacramento, California arrived from youtube.com on "The Nicole Factor".

06:57:25 -- 10 hours 19 mins ago

At this rate, I can tell that you (especially Silver Spring, as I can't emphasize enough) will be and stand with me if and when I'm famous. As the infamous Sally Field once exclaimed, "You like me! You really like me!"

I'll blog more later; but here's a shoutout to particularly Silver Spring. 

Let Me Be Frank With #TCOT...

Firstly, you can't behind hashtags like "#Isupportheterosexualmarriage" and #illegalisnotapejorative"--how pathetic! Secondly, do you have nothing better to do than to blast Obama--and I myself didn't vote for Obama, but I have respect for the fact that G-d appointed him to be my president? After all, you so-called Christian conservatives, "Render therefore to all their due: taxes to whom taxes are due, customs to whom customs, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor." (Romans 13:7) Thirdly, don't you know to follow the Twitter TOS? Twitter couldn't care less is one is conservative and Messianic Jewish or gentile Christian as long as he or she follows the TOS--they don't have time to waste tracking which tweeter is who or what. After all, "rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same." (Romans 13:3) 

And To the Haters Who Were Criticizing Me Re Krystal Keith...

I have statistics to back up my contention that she could've used a different name and made her own career. Her dad has 154,425 followers and she has 1,085 followers. Here Facebook page also looks dim with 2,442 likes in comparison to Toby Keith's 2,342,769 likes. You're free to owe me an apology, too, when you see that many of the posts and at least some of tweets on her page and timeline, respectively, contain a reference to her dad and/or her connection to him. She's in her dad's shadow, and it's a sad shame for a girl who apparently (according to her dad on "Uncut, Unedited, and Unleashed" back in 2004) sings and writes better than her dad does. 

I'm Reserved About Going To the Rusnak Family Reunion This Year Because...

1. Until further notice, I'm still estranged from my dad.
2. I haven't been to reunions since 2006.
3. Not all of the family is meshuga, but some are--and they think that I'm meshuga and have gotten others to think so.
4. Some of the ones mentioned in Reason #3 are very unhappy that I found out that we're Jewish, that Great-Grandma Gaydos was a kapo (And what else do you call someone who stopped writing to Vilmosz et. al. when they asked for help?), and that I'm a Jewish-Christian Republican.
5. Some of the ones mentioned in Reasons #3 and #4 would like to see me dead (You don't think they would if they could get away with it?).
6. They won't invite Foskos (which is a stupid move, since Great-Great-Grandma Rusnak was a Fosko--how much stupider can you get thannot to invite the matriarch's family?).
7. I'd prefer the Rapture to come first.

I have more reasons, but you get the point; and as I said on Twitter, the Spirit be with me if I go to the family reunion! 

No More Anonymous Comments

"Jean" (Anonymous) published a comment on my entry about Krystal Keith making her own name in her dad's--not her own--right. "Jean" has influenced my decision to not allow anonymous comments to be published on this blog anymore. If you are like "Jean" and have to try to stand as "Anonymous" and/or with a fake name to stand by your argument; firstly, your argument is weak and you know that it is (which is why you're hiding behind what is not your real name in the first place); and secondly, you will get your comment deleted and--obviously--not published. Stand by what you have to say. 

Talk About "Mak[ing]...Jews Pee In Their Pants!"

Anti-Semitic Malik Zulu Shabbaz and Khalid Mohammad, first of all, don't scare this Jew enough to make her pee herself--they're just kvetching Kushim who are part of the Kushim noted in Ezekiel 38 (In other words, they're not of the remnant of Kushim.). Besides, we Yehudim--at least sometimes--do enough to make ourselves and each other "pee...[our] pants". For example, take "Rabbi" Jason Rosenberg: Jason Rosenberg, as a Jew, wants to lose First Amendment freedoms? He wants the Amendment construed to make obedience to Tanakh a crime?! "We will, in short, look back at Amendment 1 and its ilk in precisely the same way that we now look back at Jim Crow." Scary thinking! And that's not the only scary part--though it may be one of the scariest parts, or the scariest part.

"To be a Jew is remember how terrible it feels to be weak and oppressed, and therefore to act..." He of course forgot to add to obey Tanakh. Of course, his view is to disregard and disobey Tanakh:

If you’re part of a religious tradition that believes your revelation came directly, and perfectly, from God, then you probably won’t see the world the same way I do. But, as part of religious movement that embraces the fact that our texts, practices and traditions all have human origins, I have no choice but to also admit that those human origins have influenced those texts, practices and traditions. In other words, they don’t only reflect God’s will, but human biases and prejudices as well. They reflect the society from which they came.

This "rabbi" is pretty revisionist as well--besides in stating that "the fact that our texts, practices and traditions all have human origins". For example, Galileo was trying to interpret the Bible correctly to the chagrin of the Roman Catholic Church. Another example: "Religious leaders who refused to see the world changing were the ones who tried to justify slavery...and so on." Unbelievable lies.

Many religious leaders, in fact, pushed for freedom & womens' rights precisely because of religion--mainly true Christianity & true Judaism (especially Messianic--Complete--Judaism). By the way,"Rabbi" Jason Rosenberg reflects much of what is wrong with URJ Judaism, including that it is revisionist! Also, I've blogged enough about URJ (Reform) Judaism in the past, so just read my blog entries about it--I don't need to link you to everything.