Her immediate argument was, she had spotted 60 times that Our Lord supposedly had contradicted the Torah. She was even writing a book about it. Note, not a blog that could become a book, or parts of which could become a book, but it's like already a book in progress.
This was under a comment I had left below a video, so, I invited her to:
- go to my profile
- get hold of my email (which is there)
- begin a correspondence debate, both of us having the full right to republish the debate on blogs of ours
- and basically get started.
Here is my youtube channel, which hasn't any videos of my own, but pretty clear contact information, links to blogs of mine and a few playlists of videos I've liked or collected:
She could have found it by clicking my handle. By the way, the uppermost playlist is about drawing and I collected pretty many by Mark Crilley on that one.
Now, let's take a closer look at how it looks on top, unfolding sth which says "et 13 autres liens" or perhaps "and 13 other links":
If we scroll down on the panel of links, we get to my email:
Another playlist is Middle Ages and Fantasy. It's more diverse. Here is the same after I click "afficher" which may be "show" where you see my channel from:
As you see, the email (while writing this) is hgl@dr.com (in the US, emails in @dr.com would typically belong to medical doctors, I intend no impersonation of that title whatsoever, just a reference to mum's and dad's profession, both were medical professionals). It is the same that you find in a tab on my correspondence blog:
So, what I was inviting her to was pretty routine for me, and would not have been impossible for her. She declined, however. She pretended she had earlier written me a declination on my offer, which I haven't found in my inbox, and that the reason for her declining was she had family in law enforcement and doesn't give personal information.
Now, I know for a very curious fact that some people consider rational reasons for their own religion or as in this case against someone else's as "personal information" .... I cannot relate, but if someone feels that way, some basic due diligence would be not to share those views on internet where it is not treated as personal information. I am very much not in this category, as I'm trying to make a living and am already making a use of my time as a Catholic Apologist. It is part of the job description to share one's rational reasons as very openly shareable information, whether they be for one's own or against someone else's religion.
Now, if she is writing some kind of Jewish Apologetic against Christianity, she obviously does not intend to treat that as personal information either. So, I suppose she meant her email and name. Here is the solution I proposed her:
You have a pseudonym for the book?
Then you can have a pseudonym in an email connected to that!
Problem solved, if that was her real issue. It could also be she was baiting me hoping that bluffs like 60 contradictions between Jesus and the Torah would make me question my faith. Not so.
I'll share one of the solutions immediately: "a tooth for a tooth and an eye for an eye" vs "turn the other cheek" ...
The thing to remark is, Moses is for each wronged party not insisting they must seek revenge or compensation, but only saying that it has that upper limit. That "sevenfold revenge" as for Cain or "seventy-seven-fold revenge" as for Tubal-Cain is illicit. By the way, civilian for civilian, it looks like IDF has, after October 7, taken sth more than just what Moses allowed. Sth reminding of Cain. And Christ is also not saying that revenge is totally illicit, up to the limit fixed by Moses, He is telling us, this must not be the first reaction, and some perfect people (monks and bishops) must not even have this as a second reaction. The first reaction of a private person, wronged in his own person, and not witness to God or others being wronged, and still able to bear it, must be to turn the other cheek, to seek an opportunity for peace. This is very clear from patristic comment. So, no, no contradiction here, Jesus is just making things a bit stricter than Moses made them.
Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
Chair of St. Peter in Antioch
where first the disciples were called Christians
22.II.2025
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