But Rosenberg’s Jewish heritage is not off-limits to us. Like any other nation, we have the right and indeed the need to examine internal threats and determine at what point one of our own has cast his sympathy, loyalty and advocacy with those who live to see us dead.

You may be a friend, but you are not one of us. It’s just that simple.

I knew it sounded wrong and I hate it when idiots spew lies and pretend it was true. Makes me sick.

Maybe you can also ask Him to take your head out of your colon.

Not that far-fetched, then. Sharpton and his fellow race-hatemongers have done more damage to black Americans than the KKK ever could, by telling them the American Dream is not theirs to partake (the hateful, grievance-nurturing message of Malcolm X, to contrast with MLK’s uplifting and optimistic speech).

More to the topic, the Passover celebration is slightly tempered, but not so much as to be humanistic in sentiment. While the Midrash says HaShem responded to Shirat Ha-Yam with the complaint, “My creations are sinking in the sea and you put out songs?!”, it is nevertheless conceded that the Jews had every right to rejoice at having 210 years of cruel slavery at the hands of the Egyptians avenged.

I know where Rosenberg is coming from in his setting of humanist standards in judgment of HaShem and His word, but that still doesn’t make it right. It’s not about the blasphemy involved, which is between God and him, but about the way this humanism robs its adherents of the necessary, temporary cruelty needed for dealing with such an evil and cruel adversary as Nazi imperialism in the past and Islamic imperialism now. The road of appeasing the aggressors and letting them remake their world in their monstrous image is paved with humanist morality.

Furthermore, you seem to be under some misunderstanding about what “firstborn” means. It doesn’t mean a baby that was born five minutes ago. It can refer to anyone, any age who is a male firstborn. I’m 37 years old and I am a firstborn.

Furthermore, it was not a punishment, it was an ultimatum! Moshe told Pharoah that if he did not release the people of Israel G-d would kill Pharoah’s firstborn, because G-d considered Israel His firstborn son. Look, have you ever seen an action movie, especially “Taken”, with Liam Neeson? L’havdil, G-d is in Liam Neeson’s position: someone has kidnapped his only child, and He goes all action hero on the bad guys. Like Liam Neeson, G-d had no personal beef with Pharoah until Pharoah not only enslaved Israel, but started murdering the male children by throwing them into the Nile. That’s when things got serious and G-d sent Moshe to deliver the ultimatum: “You let my kid go or there will be trouble? Understand?”