What would be the reason for God not making another revelation to gentiles after giving the Torah to Jews? The Torah is obviously too hard for Jews since half the Jews in the world don't want to follow it and there is no clamour in Israel to reject liberal democracy in favour of a Torah theocracy.
If the Torah is too hard for Jews, all the more would it be too hard for gentiles subject to less restrictive religions, if any, in the Post-Christian West. Most Western gentiles are Post-Christian atheists living under governments ignorant of the Noahide laws.
If all Jews believed in the afterlife, they would be in fear of the punishment they would be expected to undergo since each Jew could clock up more than one death penalty in one lifetime even if it were not carried out in the lifetime of the errant Jew. The prospect of spending an afterlife being punished for one's transgressions must be dismaying. One could be stoned to death and then resurrected in order to be beheaded, resurrected in order to be strangled and then resurrected in order to undergo death by fire, rinse and repeat as necessary until all the accumulated penalties are finally discharged.
If Jews truly believed in God and His power to punish them in their olam haba, then surely they would all want to be Noahides.
And if they wanted to be Noahides then they would acknowledge that Islam is Noahide for their purposes and get to a more paradise-like heaven using a less restrictive and tortuous route.
If Islam is the answer to Jews who want to be Noahides, then rabbis would want to properly teach the Noahide laws by ranking the four gentile religions according to their conformity with the Noahide laws with Islam being ranked most and Christianity least Noahide, even less Noahide than Hinduism which is only idolatry. If shituf is blasphemy and avodah zarah is idolatry, then it must mean that Hinduism is only idolatry while Christianity is both idolatry and blasphemy because Christians worship a Jew crucified for blasphemy according to their own Christian narrative.
The Christian defence to an accusation of idolatry is that Christianity is not idolatry if Jesus is God. But how is Jesus God?
Can Christians ever explain this coherently and satisfactorily without resorting to adopting the tactic of "winning" the argument through violence, torture and religious persecution?
Perhaps the Archbishop of Jerusalem could be invited to explain this to the satisfaction of the Chief Rabbi of Israel, if he is the most senior Christian in Israel. If Jews are still serious about teaching properly the Noahide laws, whether places of worship for idolaters should be allowed in Israel would provoke much debate.
Christians have been worshiping a Jew crucified for blasphemy for 2000 years and now may be the time God's Chosen People to point this out to them and in this way discharge their religious obligation to gentiles and the world as God chose them to do.
If all good and evil come from God, then suffering must be punishment for sin. If this is so, God must be angry with Jews for failing to rid the world of idolatry. The fact that the last three global empires have been Christian is conclusive evidence of this failure.
If they are no longer up to the job of ridding the world of idolatry because half the Jews in existence are non-observant Jews, they must acknowledge this and outsource this job to Islam and Muslims by declaring Islam the most Noahide of all gentile religions and Christianity the least so that Christians are in no doubt about the status of their idolatrous and blasphemous religion.
This can only be done by through a formal and public statement to the world on Yom Kippur with a invitation to Christian and Muslim representatives to join them in an act of penitence.
I would be very interested to know the rabbinical answer to my proposal.
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