My Attitude towards the Rabbis.

Some people have suggested that I have a grudge or hatred for the Rabbis, especially Ultra Orthodoxy.  There are several distinctions that I think are imprtant to make.

First, I look at the Hebrew Scriptures, the TaNaCh as being authoratative.  Second,  I hold by the Prophets - Neviim, and Kohanim - Priests.  The last active Kohanim in the historical record are the descendants of Tzadok, and the Maccabeans.  The sharp end of my critique is aimed at the Rabbis who waged war against these Kohanim, and they comprised of the Pharisees, their cousins the Zealots; their conscripts, and Hellenist partners in crime, and the Rabbis of the Mishnah.  To the extent that later great Rabbis such as Saadia Gaon, Maimonides etc persecuted the Karaites and misrepresented the Torah, then unfortunately I have to oppose these rabbis too. On the other hand, Ibn Ezra was a great rabbi, who was totally open to intellectual debate, as was Nachmanides. These latter rabbis were both closer in teaching to the true meaning of the Torah, and closer socially to the Karaites.
Today's rabbis are totally divorced from the Karaites, and only know from reading books like Kuzari what their own dogmas are. However, the spectrum of Ultra-Orthodoxy through to Modern Orthodoxy is very dogmatic about rabbinic law, and the authority of the talmud.  I have also suffered personally from respecting the opinions of these rabbis, who are basing their advice not on reason or truth, but on statement made by their own mentors, whether recently or several centuries ago.  The irony is that many people are totally put off by these rabbis, and become atheists, yet still continue within the rabbinic culture.
I do not wish to cause enmity of orthodoxy, rather to provide rational arguments that expose the fallacies of rabbinic misrepresentaitons of the Torah.

Some rabbis are exceptionally kind and decent people.  The rare occasion, someone like Moshe Ben Chaim, is a helpful and tolerant person, and  will give good advice.  If one opens one's mind to truth it is possible to see fallacies. The problem is that Rabbinical law is not tolerant of truth or self criticism.