Christians; how do you regard Hinduism?

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469. When we were 13,

We took a lot on faith, not just matters of religion, but law, history, science, and math. Perhaps you were one of the rare kids who, at that age, could understand gravity in terms of relativity. The rest relied on Newton or, worse, Aristotle. However, that's not the kind of faith you referring to in the OP: ideas drilled into young kids that they might not necessarily be able to judge on evidence. You were referring to the statements in the realm of metaphyiscs, particularly the conceptualization of one or more deities. You were interested in theology, not pedagogy. I have not denied that faith has a role in Judaism, but I have said that they are of a fundamentally different nature. Certainly, you were taught that non-Jews were not bound to the mitzvot.

I noticed that you took no issue with my facts about Jewish theology. Do you agree that the vagueness of the concept of a Jewish deity makes it difficult to compare to others in the manner described in the OP?

Your second paragraph seems to be in agreement with my statement that rejection of Jesus was for Jews. That's different than saying they reject Jesus for Christians, or pretend to know how G-d was revealed to them. Calling Jesus a false messiah, in the context of Judaism, isn't compelling--there have been so many, Bar Kochba and Sabbatai Svi are more prominent (the latter had adherents 100 years after his death). Everything I wrote about Jews reconciling their theology with their hosts' is true: they looked for the most supreme being, and said something to the effect of, that's really the most godly. Of course, savvy rabbis realized quite early that they should not give the king or prince too good of a refutation, lest the ghetto be sacked.