{"id":48739,"date":"2013-04-13T19:30:58","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T03:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=48739"},"modified":"2013-04-13T19:30:58","modified_gmt":"2013-04-14T03:30:58","slug":"failed-messiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=48739","title":{"rendered":"Failed Messiah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of my friends in Orthodox Judaism read <A HREF=\"http:\/\/failedmessiah.com\">Failed Messiah<\/a> but most of them loathe the author Shmarya Rosenberg. They argue that he&#8217;s filled with rage against Orthodox Judaism and that he&#8217;s coming from a bad place and therefore he shouldn&#8217;t be given credence.<\/p>\n<p>Other of my friends argue that even if he is coming from a bad place, he still has valuable things to say.<\/p>\n<p>None of my friends in Orthodox Judaism regard <A HREF=\"http:\/\/failedmessiah.com\">Failed Messiah<\/a> as coming from a good place. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been on friendly terms with Shmarya for a decade and I think his website is invaluable. It doesn&#8217;t matter to me whether or not he or anyone is coming from a good place. I don&#8217;t think you can judge people on their motives. I don&#8217;t think we can know our own motives, let alone anyone else&#8217;s. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of my friends in Orthodox Judaism read Failed Messiah but most of them loathe the author Shmarya Rosenberg. 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