> So several sages together came to these cherry picked conclusions. To clarify my post: I meant that out of the thousands of thousands of opinions recorded in

> So several sages together came to these cherry picked conclusions. To clarify my post: I meant that out of the thousands of thousands of opinions recorded in the Talmud, that list selectively quoted five or six phrases which make it sound especially bad when taken out of context, while ignoring absolutely everything else. That’s what I meant by ‘cherry picked’. (Your other responses, especially the last few lines, are fairly common misunderstandings of Judaism and Jewish history, and I have neither the time nor the inclination to try and debate them online just right now.)