Posted by fschmidt on
URL: https://mikraite.arkian.net/The-Judaist-Problem-tp1570p1577.html

The distinction between jews and judaists is comparable to the distinction between arabs and muslims.  And many more people get the second distinction than the first.  I think muslims should be able to understand the distinction between jews and judaists easily.

The distinction between Zionism and Judaism is fundamentally unclear as the book that I linked to explains.

Orthodox Judaists cannot impose their evil without Liberal Judaism or some equivalent.  The Talmud is fundamentally evil but the Torah balances it.  The judaists who drift away from Orthodoxy lose all the good of the Torah but retain the evil of the Talmud.  In effect, they become something like post-modernists, ruthless supporters of group identity without any morals and completely unwilling to have any form of honest discussion.  The Orthodox Judaists not only generate these people but also support them based on shared racism.

I don't know enough about the golden age in Spain to comment on that.  The way to research this would be to first figure out what caused the decline of Islamic culture at the end of this period, and then check what role judaists played in this change.  But I know nothing about this.

After modern culture dies, I would expect non-Orthodox judaists to align with the most corrupt Muslim leaders and to generally try to liberalize Islam.