That's a surface reading in the same way the Bible says "There is no God" (Ps. 14:1). If you'd like explanation of how these things are taken wildly out of context; how the Jewish legislation against pedophilia was, while incomplete, much more advanced than the Roman cultural entrenchment encouraging pedophilia; and the actual lack of any majority statement in the whole of the Babylonian Talmud that harming non-Jews is literally good (the generic stance is to be neutral about non-Jews), I can provide detailed demonstration (but don't want to weigh you down with it unless you're actually interested).

What I tell everyone is that, if you're going to criticize the Talmud, don't use telephone games that go back to 19th-century German; instead criticize what is actually there, its superstitions about demons, its heartbreaking casuistry, and its virtue-signaling systemic amnesty for the Jewish offender. But to say it's "pure evil" when it has thousands of comparatively decent rulings that have an important place in the development of morality is to judge it without knowledge.

Add: You should see what the Adventists used to say about non-Adventists. Their universities still teach that they used to say that. Very comparable.

That's a surface reading in the same way the Bible says "There is no God" (Ps. 14:1). If you'd like explanation of how these things are taken wildly out of context; how the Jewish legislation against pedophilia was, while incomplete, much more advanced than the Roman cultural entrenchment encouraging pedophilia; and the actual lack of any majority statement in the whole of the Babylonian Talmud that harming non-Jews is literally good (the generic stance is to be neutral about non-Jews), I can provide detailed demonstration (but don't want to weigh you down with it unless you're actually interested).

What I tell everyone is that, if you're going to criticize the Talmud, don't use telephone games that go back to 19th-century German; instead criticize what is actually there, its superstitions about demons, its heartbreaking casuistry, and its virtue-signaling systemic amnesty for the Jewish offender. But to say it's "pure evil" when it has thousands of comparatively decent rulings that have an important place in the development of morality is to judge it without knowledge.