Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : War -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas M. who wrote (3216)	9/6/2001 6:35:01 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 23908

And Arafat, the leaders of Hammas, and non-Palistinian Arab leaders have never said anything hateful or derogatory about Israel. And its not just Arabs, leaders have said such things about their enemies (both foreign and domestic) all over the world. If your point is that many Israelis harbor a lot of hate and or disdain for Palistinians then I agree, but if you are trying to claim that this is somehow unique then you are quite wrong. Tim

To: Thomas M. who wrote (3216)	9/6/2001 8:11:22 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 23908

"My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison. To-day, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice homestead.com

To: Thomas M. who wrote (3216)	9/6/2001 8:26:21 PM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

In the judgment of historians, it is a well-proven fact that for centuries, up until Vatican Council II, an anti-Jewish tradition stamped its mark in differing ways on Christian doctrine and teaching, in theology, apologetics, preaching and in the liturgy. It was on such ground that the venomous plant of hatred for the Jews was able to flourish. Hence, the heavy inheritance we still bear in our century, with all its consequences which are so difficult to wipe out. Hence our still open wounds. bc.edu

To: Thomas M. who wrote (3216)	9/6/2001 8:34:54 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 23908

The actual "Race and Reason" broadcast (2) must have been quite shocking to liberal Christian viewers: not because of hate-filled rhetoric in the program (there was none), but because the main protagonist of the presentation was a clergyman, Pastor Robert Miles, of the Mountain Church in Michigan. Reverend Miles espoused a variant of the "Anglo-Israelite" doctrine, holding that the Jews of today are not really Jews, being Ashkenazim deriving from the conversion of the Khazars. Precisely how the English, Bulgarians, Bosnians, and Scots have come to be descendants of the true Jews was not discussed on the program. (However, many persons holding similar views believe these peoples to be descended from the "ten lost tribes of Israel.") The central message of the program was that racism and religion are sweetly compatible. And of course, that message is largely true. atheists.org