Posted on 01/18/2006 1:12:45 PM PST by BobDobbs9911
Why Do “Jewish Organizations” Promote Hate Between Jew and Christian?
© Rabbi Daniel Lapin
During November, the head of the Anti-Defamation League declared Christians to be the enemies of Jews. “Their goal is to implement their Christian worldview, to Christianize America, to save us!" he said. He proceeded to name names: "Major players include Focus on the Family. Alliance Defense Fund, the American Family Association, Family Research Council and more. They and other groups have established new organizations and church-based networks, and built infrastructure throughout the country designed to promote traditional Christian values."
Where do these traditional Christian values come from? Why, from the Bible of course. Remember that book? The one God gave to the Israelites at Mount Sinai a little over 3,000 years ago. Would you tell me please which ‘traditional Christian values” could be opposed by any Jew who took the Torah seriously? In attacking Torah values, the ADL’s leader clearly indicates that his organization is driven by Democratic Party doctrine, not by Jewish values. Jewish values derive from the Bible. But one isn’t supposed to say that.
Have you noticed? In a weird sort of Alice-in-Wonderland reversal of reality, people now utter apologetic disclaimers whenever they quote something Biblical. It wasn’t so long ago that failing to incorporate Biblical metaphors into your conversation labeled you an ignoramus. Now, for the first time in 500 years, people utterly ignorant of the Bible still think of themselves as educated.
Stop the defensiveness already. Whether Jew or Christian, you need to know this book. It is the only book never to be out of print since 1452 when it became the first book ever printed. It is the book in which is enshrined the moral code of western civilization. It is the book which inspired Isaac Newton to probe and reveal secrets of science. It is the book that encouraged Oliver Cromwell to rebel against King Charles 1.
It is the book which stirred Samuel Taylor Coleridge to write, “In the Bible I have found words for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterances for my hidden griefs.” It is the book from which sprang the Founders’ vision for America. It is your legacy. Know it and quote from it.
I told you all that only so I could tell you this: Biblical morality declares peace to be more important even than truth. Or to put it a bit more accurately, peace is one of the elements that defines truth. If you didn’t understand this, you’d have to accept that God lies. In fact, God appears to have lied to none other than His first devotee, our father Abraham. Here is what happened.
In Genesis chapter 18, God’s angel informed one-hundred-year-old Abraham that during the following year, his ninety-year-old wife, Sarah would have a son. The next verse reads: “Now Sarah was listening from behind the door.” This is followed by Sarah laughing to herself at the very notion of an elderly couple having a son. She explicitly says in verse twelve, “…and my husband is far too old.”
God seems to lie in the very next verse, distorting what made Sarah laugh. “And God said to Abraham, ‘why did Sarah laugh at the news saying ‘How could I give birth with me as old as I am? ” God told Abraham that Sarah laughed at her own age. In fact, she didn’t laugh at the thought of her own age as much as she laughed at her husband being too old. That is exactly what she said in verse twelve . Yet God changed the facts when He reported Sarah’s laughter to Abraham.
Ancient Jewish wisdom points out that the Bible is a moral guide not a history book. Thus it teaches humanity that peace, in this case between husband and wife, is more important than recitation of facts. What is more, it explains that an ultimately truthful report would have to take into account how horrified Sarah would have been had she embarrassed her husband. For this reason, God reported Sarah’s laughter as having been the result of contemplating her own age rather than doubting her husband’s virility.
That is how important peace is to Judaism. Peace isn’t the highest value of all; it can’t be pursued, for example, at the price of betrayal, defeat, or dishonor. But gratuitously picking fights and encouraging disharmony is abhorrent. Doing so to one’s friends is even worse. Peace between American Jew and American Christian is not only achievable, it is a beautiful reality. If you think about it, this peace is an amazing historic development. But more importantly, it is a brotherhood of destiny. What on earth motivates those so-called Jewish organizations who jeopardize it?
If America is to prevail against Islamic terror and once again save Western civilization, American Jews and American Christians must link arms. This great struggle which threatens to plunge, not just Europe but the whole world back into darkness and primitivism is ultimately a struggle between the culture of the Koran and the twin civilizations of the Bible. Only if we, who sprang from the Bible, stand firm can we hope to prevail.
If America is to stand with Israel, American Jews and Americans Christian must link arms. The Washington Post reported how Donald E. Wildmon, chairman of the evangelical American Family Association, warned in a Dec. 5th 2005 radio broadcast that Foxman was fighting the very people who are the strongest supporters of Israel. "The more he says that 'you people are destroying this country,' you know, some people are going to begin to get fed up with this and say, 'Well, all right then. If that's the way you feel, then we just won't support Israel anymore.' " I know Don Wildmon and he is a philo-Semitic supporter of Israel. He is not saying that he will stop loving Jews and Israel. He is warning that many people finally tire of being endlessly kicked by those they considered their friends, and eventually change their minds.
If America is to restore its culture, banish vulgarity, and resist those who would remake it in Europe’s image, American Jews and American Christians must link arms.
In the face of these mighty challenges, Mr. Foxman of the ADL, and Rabbi Eric Yoffie of the Reform Jewish movement see fit to try and destroy peace between American Christian and American Jew. In mid-November, Rabbi Yoffie insisted that anyone who opposes homosexuality is like Hitler. That is right, Rabbi Yoffie is saying that adhering to the words of Leviticus makes me a Nazi!
Mr. Foxman denounced by name, organizations like Focus on the Family. Alliance Defense Fund, the American Family Association, and Family Research Council. I have spoken for these fine organizations on numerous occasions. Whenever I have done so, my speeches were Torah-based words of an Orthodox rabbi. These organizations which Mr. Foxman not so subtly suggests are anti-Jewish applauded my remarks. I have broadcast and socialized with Dr. James Dobson, the founder of Focus on the Family; he is a Bible-loving supporter of Israel and friend of the Jewish people. Alan Sears, the head of Alliance Defense Fund is a dear friend and is deeply committed to Biblical values. His organization does outstanding work and is supported by many members of Toward Tradition as indeed it ought to be. The American Family Association and Family Research Council both stand for the basic unit of social organization—the family. What Jew committed to Jewish values would not support these excellent organizations that advocate for the life model recommended by the Bible?
Peace is a foundational Jewish value. Those who try to bring about peace and maintain it are acting in accordance with Biblical values. Those who undermine it and attempt to replace it with enmity are acting in accordance with some other set of values. I am not sure what it is but I am sure it isn’t Jewish.
Rabbi Daniel Lapin
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I don't know if I'd say that is promoting hate. They are trying to promote paranoia--not quite the same.
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It's a small little thing, but didn't Sarah laugh at both her husbands age and her age having a child. Not just that Abraham was so old.
Peace is good. Freedom is better.(tm)
Why Do “Jewish Organizations” Promote Hate Between Jew and Christian?
Because many / most "Jews" in America place Leftism ahead of Judaism. Leftists must first destroy Western Civilization before they can implement their dystopia. Conservative Christianity is the bulwark of Western Civilization, so their project requires them to attack it.
(This is a Conservative Jew's Perspective; so don't go "Anti-Semite!" on me.)
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Well there is no doubt that largely Jewish organizations have been trying to destroy American Christian traditions for years. (ACLU, ADL, etc.)
And they also ignore the genocide committed by Soviet Bolsheviks (of whom more than half were Jewish) which killed millions more than Hitler did.
It's not a small point. This is not much of a case for God putting peace above truth. The King James Version is translated:
"Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?
"And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?"
It looks to me like the Rabbi is misquoting the Bible to promote the liberal world view.
The ADL has MUCH more to fear from Evangelical Christians than from Muslim fanatics. Muslim fanatics kill small numbers of Jews resulting in large donations to the ADL. Evalgelical Christians convert larger numbers of Jews, resulting in reduced donations to the ADL... Follow the money...
A lot of liberal Jews care more about liberalism than they do about Judism. Liberalism tends to hate Christianity. I don't think it has anything to do with being Jews.
One reason is who the Conservative Christians support in Israel.
They support the Right.
If you read Foxman and Yoffie opinions on Israel you will find that they are in the "give peace a chance", moral equivalence, the surrender camp.
The Israeli Right, their political enemies, are supported by conservative Christians.
Christian supporters of Israel may find it strange, but it may be a case of the friend of my enemy is my enemy.
Christians are not the main target, they are the friends.
If you manage to weaken the friendship you also weaken your real enemy. The Israeli Right.
For the same reason the Leftist Israeli newspaper Haaretz also publishes stories to elicit problems between Christians and Jews.
This is evidence, in my opinion, that Christianity has indeed "superseded" Judaism as the covenant religion. The majority of those Jews who rejected the Messiah do not seem interested in the Torah law that He instituted. Thus, the vast majority of Jews are very liberal - including on basic moral issues like abortion and "assisted suicide." They are in opposition to God's law. This should not come as a surprise, because Jesus - the Messiah - IS God, and rejecting Him is, well, rejecting Him.
The Bible really is a good book!
Lately Am-Haaretz and Idiot Aharonot seem to have devoted all their energy to demonizing the "settlers" and the "haredim." Jerusalem Post has also made a hard left turn.
To the ADL, A jew is a jew is a jew.....They are nothing but numbers and power!
Except that organized Judaism explicitly rejects Jesus as the Messiah. So, if you believe that Jesus is God, then organized Judaism has rejected God in His human manifestation - - as the Messiah of the Jews and "Son of God" for the Gentiles. There are consequences of formally rejecting the Messiah - one of the consequences for Judaism is that it has lost its way morally; the great majority of Jews are very liberal - in direct oppostion to God's law on basic issues such as abortion, homosexuality, assisted suicide (or legalized murder, to use a less PC term).
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