Redstone said:

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They're obviously parodying their upbringing, but it's amazingly biting and vicious. I'd bet at least one of them pulls a Norman Lear and converts to Christianity.

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Cinco Ranch Aggie said:

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A few old titles that I have thought of:

Assault on Precinct 13, an early John Carpenter film that showed the style he would become known for (1976)
Looker, a sci-fi movie about subliminal messaging in advertising (1981)
Blow Out, a John Travolta psychological thriller (1981)
Escape To Witch Mountain, live action Disney movie (1975)
It, the Terror From Beyond Space, the makers of Alien clearly enjoyed this one (1957)
The Creature From the Black Lagoon, last of the classic Universal monster movies (1955)

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Redstone said:

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I'm very well aware, especially having read my signed copy of Alan Dershowitz's The Vanishing American Jew. (He agrees with my definition of that term, by the way, articulated in a R&P thread we were both on 3 years ago.)

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Redstone said:

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Uh. Revisit the thread.

And I again recommend Shlomo Sand to you, as well as any detailed history of Titus decimating the Temple in 70, making Christianity older than the wholly reconstituted Judaism.

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Redstone said:

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He's a major Israeli academic with a major book that detailed the many conversions, at least 10 and including Yemen, to a wholly new religious view rooted in the Pharisees views, after the gigantic disruption of 67 to 70. These mass conversions were extremely important, from 70 to rise of Islam.

Christianity is older.

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Sand's book has enraged scholars of Judaism and Jewish history, both in Israel and abroad. They have systematically dismantled its arguments and pointed out its myriad factual errors. Fume they may, but the book has been avidly consumed by non-specialists and general readers... Sand's internal logic is that of the conspiracy theorist, and he appeals precisely to people who see the Zionist project as a monumental exercise of bad faith.
...Tendentious, inaccurate, and manipulative though the book may be, Sand is absolutely right that what scholars know about the origins of the Jewish people has not become common currency. He is wrong about the reasons why this is the case, and the ones he proffers are no doubt pleasing to readers who are suspicious of nationalist scholars in general and Israeli ones in particular

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Redstone said:

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Yeah, wrong.

Go read about the many details of these conversions and kingdoms. Plenty of sources. Don't be anxious.

The wholly reconstituted Judaism was aggressively proselytizing for half a millennium, and included many elites controlling trade routes of Eurasia.

Eventually swept by Islam, and also fascinating and important.

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VP at Pierce and Pierce said:

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The Lives of Others (German film)

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VP at Pierce and Pierce said:

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The Lives of Others (German film)

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Redstone said:

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Discredited why? Because you've provided zero detail whatsoever?

You might also be interested in Other Zions by Eric Maroney, especially regarding the many mass conversions to the WHOLLY RECONSTRUCTED religion post 70, across North Africa.

The numbers there were especially large, for more than 500 years. Many interesting connections to Punic culture, sometimes called the "Carthaginian Theory."

A lot is hazy in the mists of 1,500 to 2,000 years ago. But you know what isn't?

Multiple mass conversions, 70 to about 800 AD.

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Aggie Dad 26 said:

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The Slamin Salmon
Bulletproof

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uujm said:

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Aggie Dad 26 said:

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The Slamin Salmon
Bulletproof

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As great as Supertroopers and Beerfest are, I think the Slammin Salmon is my favorite. I love the contained script.

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