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samplin Wrote: Oct 13, 2012 1:02 PM
I think he is correct. Add a healthy helping of materialism as well. Traveled not long ago with a group which included many liberal reformed Jews. Many condemned the amount of gold in the Catholic Churches in South America, but spent a great deal of money buying jewelry.
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pow1000 Wrote: Oct 13, 2012 3:02 PM
Excellent point! Especially about the jewelry!
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Alice153 Wrote: Oct 15, 2012 11:02 AM
Nothing more than the hypocrisy of people in general. I've seen people in Church sit piously in their pews on Sunday and go out and manipulate people in the workplace for gain and never turn a hair. Jews are people whose hearts are not always right with God. The shame is that so many of them latch onto the valueless material world and eschew God.
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