Why does Judaism make a cardinal sin of it, demanding total eradication of idolatry in every corner the world?

Question

Why is Judaism so intolerant of idolatry? I don't mean massive temples with human sacrifices. What about a civilized idolater, in the privacy of his own home. With a job, a family, a mortgage, donates to the World Hunger Fund and Greenpeace -- and instead of one G-d, he just happens to have two or three or even several dozen, all lined up on the dashboard of his car

Historians agree that our current standard of ethics stems from the Jewish ethic. Yes, the Greeks gave us the natural sciences, philosophy and art; the Romans gave us governmental structure and engineering; from the Persians we have poetry and astronomy; from the Chinese, paper, printing, gunpowder, acupuncture and more philosophy, and so on. But the historical fact is that all those cultures (and all the other unmentioned) sustained and even glorified attitudes and behaviors that today we universally find abhorrent. Today, if you dispose of your unwanted infants, practice pederasty, set humans to kill each other for sport, ignore the rights of those lower than you on the social ladder and refuse to acknowledge any social responsibility to the poor and the unhealthy, and can't wait to run to war against the nation next door, you are a barbarian. You may have made a wonderful citizen of Athens or Rome, but today, no club will take you.

Answer 1

Huh?? By and large we don't care. We have enough to worry about as it is.

Answer 2

Actually it dose not.

The only place Jews are bibilicly required to remove idolatry is in the land of Israel.

While Judaism certainly encourages and hopes idolaters change their ways it makes no requirement for their adherents to eradicate idolatry practiced by others in their land.

Answer 3

Judaism is intolerant of idolatry for Jews. There is no attempt about anything for non Jews.

Are you Jewish? If not, move on.

Answer 4

Judaism says to kill all idolators so there sin does not creep into the Jewish nation.


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