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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Greg or e who wrote (8802)	3/16/2001 8:12:59 AM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Since the vast majority of the New Testament was written by Jews, to Jews, I think it is hilarious that it could in any way be construed as being anti Semitic. Well, it is not a very funny joke. If it was not for the Christian Church hating the Jews, people like Hitler would have had far less moral authority to justify their genocide. No less an authority on the bible than Martin Luther, wrote an infamous anti semitic tract that was used by the Nazis and others to justify their twisted ideas. The Church Fathers promoted hatred of the Jews. Their writings are part of the public record. The modern church admits culpability in the terrible contribution it made to anti-semitism. There is no mysterious and secret scholarship involved here. The history of the Christian Church as regards hatred of Jews is not a mystery. It is an open book. Did the leaders and followers of the Christian Faith misinterpret the Old and New Testaments for all those centuries? Who cares? Not the victims. Unfortunately, you just can't have 2 or 3 or 6 chosen peoples--something has to give. Reading the vicious writings of Christian leaders against the Jews hardly requires any scholarship degrees--from cereal boxes or otherwise. arthurstreet.com Here is another decent exposition: billwilliams.org The Church, who was now Israel, had to discredit the other Israel. And it did so by making anti-Jewish theology an integral part of Christian apologetics. The Fathers turned out volumes of literature to prove that they were the true people of God, and that Judaism had only been a prelude to or in preparation for Christianity. Justin Martyr along with Hippolytus (170-236 C.E.) was obsessed with the belief that the Jews were receiving and would continue to receive God's punishment for having murdered Jesus. Hippolytus writes: "Now then, incline thine ear to me and hear my words, and give heed, thou Jew. Many a time does thou boast thyself, in that thou didst condemn Jesus of Nazareth to death, and didst give him vinegar and gall to drink; and thou dost vaunt thyself because of this. Come, therefore, and let us consider together whether perchance thou dost boast unrighteously, O, Israel, and whether thou small portion of vinegar and gall has not brought down this fearful threatening upon thee and whether this is not the cause of thy present condition involved in these myriad of troubles