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People's search for meaning by looking for something beyond themselves.
If you looked at my definition in "Can people with AS be Religious" posted some time ago, you would see where I posited my working definitions of Religious and Spiritual.
It is my belief that the second definition belongs to spiritual persuits much more then religious ones. But, people certainly investigate religions in a persuit of something external to themselves.
One can certainly argue that if all Jews never saw Jesus as the messiah, then Jesus ben Joseph would never have been called the Christ, and he would never have ridden on the back of a donkey into Jerusalem through the gate he did. The apostles (all Jews) certainly believed that Jesus was the messiah. I'm certain that if you asked 100 Jews what they thought on the issue that you would get a wide spectrum of answers. To purposefully exclude those Jews who answered affirmitively or that they were uncertain is just another form of bigotry.
I didn't ask you what you thought of Bar Kokhba.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/revolt1.html
Or whether or not you waved a lulav for Sukkot.
23 Oct 2005, 9:10 pm
