Comments on: Microblog 2008-12-27

By: Ron Coleman

Ron Coleman — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:36:29 +0000

Indeedy I did! No false light here! (Particularly on Chanukah!)

By: SSFC

SSFC — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:02:40 +0000

Thanks Ron, as you can see I had already dismantled the bullet after reading your first comment. I’ve directed readers here for discussion.

By: Ron Coleman

Ron Coleman — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 15:54:59 +0000

My bad on the name — Barak P. obviously did read it; I mean SSFC seemed to have missed it.

By: Commentor

Commentor — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 14:49:40 +0000

The religious insignia case should get a second look from the blogger, as the other two posters have stated, I’m not sure it says what is being presented here.

The ruling is that Messianic Jews must wear a Christian Cross rather than Jewish regalia; a much finer point than presented, and a decision which has no bearing on the other faiths listed in the post.

By: Ron Coleman

Ron Coleman — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 14:33:23 +0000

Barak, you appear not to have really read the story -- it's about Christians who are ethnically Jewish (sometimes) but whose religion is simply not Judaism. It has nothing to do with whether the Navy has a stock of insignia for Jewish and other chaplains.

By: Barak A. Pearlmutter

Barak A. Pearlmutter — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 12:48:29 +0000

> Should Jewish (and for that matter Muslim, Hindu,
> or Buddhist) military chaplains be required to
> wear a cross? The Navy says yes.

The Navy has a good point … if the “Jewish” chaplain in question is a “Messianic Jew”, meaning he believes that Jesus was the Messiah!

How’d you like to be a Jewish sailor and suddenly have this Jewish-star-wearing Navy-approved chaplain start preaching to you that Jesus was the Messiah and if you don’t believe too you’ll be going to Hell? Confusing to say the least!

Down hereabouts we have a word for people who believe that Jesus was the Messiah. We call them “Christians.”