Posted on 03/16/2002 8:03:22 PM PST by churchillbuff
If Jews are immune from criticism, where did you learn of their faults?
Well it certainly wasn't on CNN, MSNBC, or CBS or ABC or in the pages of Time, Newsweek or US News and World Report, although everyone knows these organs criticize the "Christian right" on a regular basis.
The truth is I had never heard of Jonathan Pollard or the USS Liberty until I started reading Free Republic.
I'm sure the same is true for many people.
Do me a favor. Before you go to sleep tonight, drill a hole in the side of your head, and then lay on one side so that the BS will ooze out.
Think that works? Am I alone in my feeling that these thread's about an honarable 84(?) year old man, nearing the end of his life, who made a mistake and repented for it, are distasteful and disrespectful?
International globalists, Bildegergers, Illuminati, Society of Rome, etc., it doesn't matter what they are called. They do exist, they do have a long stading agenda for establishing a one world goverennment and religion under their control, and they are patient.
Am I alone in my feeling that these thread's about an honarable 84(?) year old man, nearing the end of his life, who made a mistake and repented for it, are distasteful and disrespectful?
You're right. Graham probably didn't want the ADL all over him like a pack of rabid animals. So he did what he had to do.
Remember Abraham Foxman's original assessment? In typical ADL fashion, it was unmerciful. Foxman said that Graham was a purveyor of "age-old classical anti-Semitic canards."
Clearly, a tasteful, respectful comment about a man near the end of his life, right?
Do me a favor. Before you go to sleep tonight, drill a hole in the side of your head, and then lay on one side so that the BS will ooze out.
Good grief, going for the invective after just one exchange?
How about discussing the issues. Are Jews inordinately represented in the Media and Hollywood or not?
We obviously disagree on the man's character. Facing his God, you think he's motivated by fear of the ADL (not really, I know you have other unspoken issues), I respect his words. I respect the man, with little concern for what he said 30 years ago, and has disclaimed. How about another few posts, demeaning his motives? You aren't on this thread posting about Billy Grahm, are you?
Yes. Therefore what? Impose racial quotas?
You have no idea what you are talking about. And the comparison was a slur.
FYI, Here is a little history on your choice of the word bigotry.
Word History: Bigots may have more in common with God than one might think. Legend has it that Rollo, the first duke of Normandy, refused to kiss the foot of the French king Charles III, uttering the phrase bi got, his borrowing of the assumed Old English equivalent of our expression by God. Although this story is almost surely apocryphal, it is true that bigot was used by the French as a term of abuse for the Normans, but not in a religious sense. Later, however, the word, or very possibly a homonym, was used abusively in French for the Beguines, members of a Roman Catholic lay sisterhood. From the 15th century on Old French bigot meant “an excessively devoted or hypocritical person.” Bigot is first recorded in English in 1598 with the sense “a superstitious hypocrite.”
Also looking into the definition of bigotry you are faced with several for consideration. Taking the obvious meaning you have projected:
2. A person who regards his own faith and views in matters of religion as unquestionably right, and any belief or opinion opposed to or differing from them as unreasonable or wicked.
It sounds like Billy to me. He has publically admitted that the only way to heaven is through Christ. Thus in the true sense of the word, he is bigoted toward not just Jews but all others that do not believe in Christ. His mission is to save them from damnation and guide them into the grace of Christ, which means he loves them despite the fact they are wicked and of the world.
I would gather that he also knows that no man is free of sin, including himself.
I see that you have accepted his apology, which is good of you, do you also accept that Jesus Christ is the Son of God?
You don't really believe what you think you believe because you are spiritually unable or unwilling to repudiate anti-semitism like Billy Graham.
Really now, who is unwilling? I asked you a question, Instead of answering you asked me one in return and now you are assuming things in your knowing of what I believe.
Can you answer me please? It's a simple question. I promise I will answer yours in turn.
It's not just a claim when Graham admits it in his own words.
There are, in fact, a lot of Jews who believe it to be at least partly true.
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