Re: Wagner and friends

[Eliezer Kaplan <zelwel...>]

I did not mean to start all this- aaarrrgghhhhh.
But it's my personal feeling that though a person can catalog and typify you
cannot truly understand Christianity unless you are a Christian. You cannot
understand Hinduism unless you are a Hindu.
I can hold up yardsticks, but they are always tainted by my own cultural
upbringing.
                      ek (Ortho, but way too many anthropology classes in
college ;-)


----- Original Message -----
From: "R.A.S." <richards (at) rainlore(dot)demon(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 6:37 PM
Subject: Re: Wagner and friends


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> On 28/02/2003 at 05:42 Alex Jacobowitz wrote:
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> >--- Eliezer Kaplan <zelwel (at) attbi(dot)com> wrote:
> >> (BTW AFAIK Christianity is NOT  considered Avodah
> >> Zarah and according to the
> >> Talmud the desire to do true Avodah Zarah is no
> >> longer in the world- though
> >> I would have to ask my rabbi for chapter and verse.)
> >
> >Avoda zarah still exists. Meod chaval.
> >According to the rebeim, Catholicism is still
> >a problem, which Protestantism isnt. Rambam
> >says its okay to pray in a Mosque (the Moslems
> >are that close to us).  But Hindus? Krishna?
> >First class apikorsus.
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> Hmm, personally I really don't see a vast difference between Christianity
> and Hinduism, in principal. The former, IMO, takes the concept of
> monotheism and swiftly splits G** into three (or arguably, in the case of
> Catholicism at any rate, four, counting the VM). The latter also takes a
> single deity, Brahma, as its root, but allows for numerous incarnations of
> the same, including, most notably, Vishnu, Shiva, Krshna, Rama, etc. etc.
> In the end, both IMO make a meal out of the concept of monotheism as
taught
> by Moses.
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> Richard
> (Renaissance Man)
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