Thread by @Delafina777

and also for the 90th time

Jews for Jesus/Messianic "Judaism" isn't Judaism, it's literally a Christian movement started by the Southern Baptist Convention and designed to be a Trojan Horse that eliminates actual Judaism

Like I don’t know how to make this any clearer: there is no branch or version of Judaism that worships Jesus.

Full stop.

And for the most part, it attracts mostly Christians who was to cosplay as Jews (Jews for Jesus with so much as a single Jewish grandparent are in the minority) because it tends to be very HELLO FELLOW KIDS

And for most practicing Jews, it’s a minor annoyance: you’re traveling and think you’ve found a shul near your hotel only to discover that it’s a messianic “synagogue”

But they do occasionally visit actual synagogues, find people who are sitting alone, and invite them to their “synagogue” without disclosing that it’s actually a church, so it’s not like they’re minding their own business

But worse, they are supercessionist on steroids

Like, most brands of Christianity these days are more or less content to let Jews exist and have abandoned the rhetoric of “Christianity is the REAL Judaism.”

Messianic “Judaism” leans hard into that belief that everything Jewish—even Jewish writings and practices developed after Judaism and Christianity split—rightfully belong to Christians

And worse, a lot of well-meaning Christians assume they’re some sort of progressive, interfaith thing instead of, again, A CONSERVATIVE BAPTIST MOVEMENT, and get information about Jewish practice from them

And they retroject Christian meaning into Jewish practices developed after Christianity split off, in which it is emphatically, consciously not there.

If you want to understand Judaism, get your info from actual Jews, not a Southern Baptist in a tallit.