Now, flattery will get you nowhere, Cobe!
Which biblical quotes are you claiming were in fact not in the Bible? St. John (8:44)? Check it out.
This is Matthew talkin', not a blogster. (Well, at least not a living one):
MATT: Remember, you'll know who they are by what they produce. If you
make the tree choice, its fruit will be choice; if you make the tree
rotten, its fruit will be rotten. After all, the tree is known by its
fruit. You spawn of Satan, how can your speech be good when you are
corrupt? As you know, the mouth gives voice to what the heart is full of.
The good person produces good things out of a fund of good; and the evil
person produces evil things out of a fund of evil.
What I myself said is:
This is all ancient nonsense, of course, but as these exchanges show, they still have the power to wig people out. Googling, I found the most vile anti-Semitic stuff in chat rooms and blogs. I wonder if those guys will think The Passion is Lady of the Lake.
I gave a number of chapter/verse citations, Cobe. No comment on them? There are schools of embarrassed Christians who have designed rationalizations to soften the anti-Semitism, you could quote some of their "explanations"!
Some specific biblical citations appear in this rant. The fact that a blogger posts them doesn't mean they aren't in the Gospels. Check it out, if you care:
Yet, how mild is the "bloody commission," a statement that places upon the Jews guilt for all the righteous blood ever shed upon the earth (Matthew 23:35), or a spurious self-condemnation whereby the Jewish people supposedly take upon themselves and their offspring an eternal blame for the death of Jesus (Matthew 27:25), or a declaration that the Jews are the children of the devil (John 8:44) and that the Jews are a "synagogue of Satan" (Revelation 2:9, 3:9). Paul summed up the denunciation of the Jews with the inflammatory declaration that the Jews are "hostile to all men" (1 Thessalonians 2:15). The attitude of the New Testament authors toward the Jews is very clear. |
