The attendee who pressed Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed to disavow the Muslim Brotherhood at a tense town hall this weekend was exposed as a former GOP staffer with “Christian nationalist ties,” journalist Marisa Kabas reported.

As first reported by Kabas on her Substack The Handbasket, Tommy was actually Thomas Teepell, who previously served as operations director for Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) until February of this year.

Teepell’s father is Timmy Teepell, a GOP strategist who worked for former Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal through his climb from congressman to governor. Jindal is the founder of America Next, a conservative PAC that, according to The Michigan Daily, offered Republican college students $200 to travel to an El-Sayed event to “heckle” the Democratic candidate and ask provocative questions.

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    I was baptized Catholic, and I am agnostic now.

    It’s petty clear to me that ALL of Christianity is a sect of Judaism, which itself nothing more than a book worshiping cult. My evidence is Christian Hypocrisy, claiming to be pious, while acting otherwise.

    Baptism is a Jewish invention. The messiah is a Jewish invention and finally, the Bible itself is also a Jewish invention. Christians accept all of these without question, ergo they are Jews. The difference is they believe Jesus (a Jewish rabbi) was the messiah while classical Jews do not.

    ITS THE SAME RELIGION.

    “In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

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      it’s petty clear to me that ALL of Christianity is a sect of Judaism

      Yes, that’s how Christianity happened. A bunch of Jews believed that when Jesus claimed he was a son of God, that he was telling the truth, and his crucifixion and subsequent resurrection rather solidified that belief.

      But not all Jews agreed, so those who did believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ became known as “Christians“ over the next couple of centuries.

      So, yes, Christianity can be viewed as a particularly peculiar sect of Judaism

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      Yes, Judaism, Christianity and Islam are called Abrahamic religions for this reason. They’re the product of the same lore in different eras.

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        Islam in fact holds Jesus as a prophet. It also allows their followers to eat anything that is kosher because that is a stricter form of halal

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      I would argue it’s more of a sequel or reboot. Jesus even talked about keeping the law and such, which arguably defines a lot about Judaism, but you’ll find almost no modern christian sects that do.

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        jesus was all in. the most offensive thing he ever did was declare ‘the scriptures are fulfilled’

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      Yeah, but Christianity pretty much invented antisemitism, and our Christianity as we have it was likely much more influenced by Greek speaking gentile communities in Rome and Asia Minor than by the early Jewish Christians.

      I am not a scholar, but my current thinking is that the Jewish/Petrine Christianity started by Jesus’ disciples largely disappeared and is attributed to an early christian sect called the Ebionites. What we have today is largely Pauline and Roman by descent.

      Judaism is not generally trying to convert the masses.

      Christianity is inherently more dangerous because it is both exclusive and evangelical.