Reply To: Lo sichanem

Atheism, denying Hashem, is punished by something worse than kares…a person loses their olam haba. It’s incredible to me that a new who professes to keep the mitzvos would think otherwise; he is absolutely punished for denying Hashem. The rambam says that even a person who treats the existence of Hashem or the truth of the Torah wishy washy, sometimes he believes, sometimes he doesn’t, is “destroying the world”… He writes this in hilchos teshuva. I suggest you learn it, both because you don’t know it and because you have some serious teshuva to do…i can’t imagine someone who thinks little of mind related mitzvos keeps them very well.

Lo sasuru prohibits heretical thoughts, but according to you, it’s not a big deal because he hasn’t done anything physical… Chazal say that hirhurim are worse, and the Maharal explains that sinful thoughts are worse because they affect the neshoma directly, as opposed to exterior actions.

My point about pen yesh bachem was that it was an example of how feelings and thoughts are important. It of course leads to other sins and eventually forsaking Torah altogether.

You’re reading tanach like the goyim, who call it the bloody old testament. Those violent, idol worshipping Israelites…

Chazal clearly understand tanach differently than you do. Even reshoim like izevel kept kashrus, otherwise how did eliyahu eat from her table, when he wasn’t even there? It was delivered to him. There are many such examples.

Perhaps you’re justifying your own shortcomings by saying that jews throughout history were mostly sinners, but there’s zero evidence of that.