SJ moves to a different faith

SJ is one of the angriest former BTs on the net, so much so that I banned him for awhile for reasons that I think we should leave in the archives.

In what may be a parting post, SJ rreveals more about himself, and what drove him to his hatred of the Orthodox.

Though I am secular, I picked up blogging about the orthodox community because I thought that all jews should be concerned about them due to their fascist asceticism and Manifest Destiny agenda towards the Jewish people as a whole (Stifling dissent, superstrict rules, kiruv towards other jews). (I meandered in and out of the orthodox community for a long while.)

There is also another reason why I picked up blogging, a clique of orthodox jews aka the anti – loshon hara crowd (not all Orthodox Jews of course, just a clique of them) nuked my reputation at school. As a result of both reasons, SJ came into being. This blog came into being as a blog that would be critical of the orthodox jews on levels that are theological, sociological, psychological, historical, etc.

SJ appears to be headed towards a non-fundamentalist version of Christianity, as he notes,

What is this new faith for me? Here’s a hint in Isaiah 9:6 “For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”

It appears, on closer look, that SJ is moving towards a Messianic version of Christianity, as he wrote in the comments section when I asked why not just go Unitarian,

I’m not a universalist.

It would seem to me that the New Testament adds to Tanach a level of empiricalness. Tanach alone is not enough for me to justify religious faith but the both testaments together does seem to be enough to justify it, to me.