I really like you guys. Why don't we go for drinks sometime in Tel-Aviv and indulge in Israel's national sport, arguing?

Hetzkel, all the points you're making are coherent and based on true knowledge, but you're missing mine:
Aren't Christianity, and the more than 10 centuries of sorrow and persecution it brought upon us, the most pernicious and perennial products of Jewish messianism itself?
Hasn't Judaism evolved in 30 centuries, and weeded out or defanged most of its truly barbarous angles, such as the stoning of adulterers and  homosexuals, done away with its parasitic priesthood class, and compiled the Talmud and the Commentaries? Isn't it time to shed the extinction-level threat of messianism as well, or at least to yank it from its literal interpretations and stow it safely in the spirituality n' mysticism drawer?

Jastayme, since the mortal conflict between the Jewish People and the Churches of Jesus has been mostly dealt with in the good direction, that of reconciliation, even before you and I were born, you're probably not aware of the depth of the animosity that existed between us until very recently. If you don't believe me, read Ernest Renan.... It's late 19^th century French Catholic philosophy, and it is at the base of the mid 20^th's racist theories.
In this context, Jews made, and are still making, a distinction between the Epikoros, the unbeliever, and the Meshumad, the apostate. While the first is viewed as a somewhat erring eccentric and sometimes risks as much as a temporary excommunication (see Baruch Spinoza), the latter crossed the lines to the enemy, so to speak, and is viewed as a traitor that excluded himself from Israel. He is not to be executed, like the Moslem that leaves Islam. He's simply not one of us anymore, and his excommunication is therefore automatic, unless he stands a chance of becoming the next Pope, of course...
In Judaism, loyalty is paramount. Faith, as per Maimonides' Thirteen Articles..., is viewed as a personal matter best left to personal choice, at least in the current I belong too, Western (Republican) Orthodoxy, that indeed may not be as mainstream as I've been brought up to think...
A Jew may believe or not, that's his own problem. As long as he belongs, and worships no other gods.
 

In a sort of way I understand. But it is putting community ahead of the search for truth. And if you are wrong and I am right then you are shackleing yourselves with a golden chain.
And again letting Atheists in and not Christians is remarkably eccentric.

Actually one thing I admire about the Jews is they came through it so well. Christians in Moslem lands often became either degraded or barbaric. Jews did neither.

I'm not sure you know what you're talking about here. People are people, and as such are a pretty stinky species. Jews are no exception.
There are many testimonies of the depravity of both the Jews and the Christians of Moslem lands in 19^th century travel literature.
If you're referring to the savagery of the Spaniards after they shook off the Islamic yoke, then you probably haven't heard of the 300-odd years of bloody and intolerant Israelite rule in Ethiopia in the Middle-Ages.