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To: Ancesthntr
The New Testament emphasizes love, love and love via Christ. The Church Fathers painted the Jews’ Old Testament as a vindictive and cruel in impossible to follow law, therefore all one had to do was “believe” he/she can be “saved”.

As it turns out where, as you say, “Actions speak louder than words” the Jews, for all the Church criticisms and hatred finds a people reserved, learned and to themselves for most of human history, not bothering anybody, where performing good deeds (mitzvot) and learning is the life mode and end-game. No Jew tried/tries to pretzels anybody into becoming a Jew.

Christianity on the other hand supposedly being the love, love turn the other cheek religion, has intentionally kept the masses ignorant while violently Crusading against other religions, especially Judaism and Islam. OK, so Christians today are “tolerant” and fair but it wasn’t always that way.

I won't even discuss Islam now because that faith is just way too screwed up to begin analyzing. Islam in 2015 is where Christianity was in 1134.

The love, love love faith ended up putting people on the rack or burning them at the stake. The Old Testament religion of Judaism was violent in the Bible period like eveybody else but they moved on.

The Ukrainians were no different than most of Europe, cruel waves of Antisemitism and blood letting pent up since the last Pogroms from the late 19th century. Antisemitism comes in major waves and WWII was just another wave of bloodletting to which the Ukrainians, Poles, Germans, Croats and so many others were just waiting for.

22 posted on 08/25/2015 3:51:57 AM PDT by Netz
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To: Netz
to pretzels anybody...

prostelytize

24 posted on 08/25/2015 3:54:30 AM PDT by Netz
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