Ancestral pride

[supergee]

Comments

[necturus]

The essential difference between Judaism and Christianity is, I think, that the observant Jew abstains in accordance with a covenant binding his people, the Children of Israel, with their God; whereas the Christian moralist acts out of belief in a universal set of beliefs and moral values his God makes obligatory for all mankind. In that he is like the Muslim who is commanded to "enjoin good an forbid evil"; but his Qur'an acknowledges the rights of Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians to follow their own scriptures. Christianity's New Testament makes no such exemption.