"Is there really a more serious charge against a people than that they killed G-d? Saying the Jews killed Jesus is to make every Jew the anti-Christ, possessed of dark, demonic forces."
He obviously isn't much of a Talmudic scholar either. The Talmud states clearly that it was the Jewish authorities who arranged the trial and campaigned for Jesus' death. Are the authors of the Talmud anti-semites too?
"In his place has arisen a kooky religious fundamentalist who seems intent on reversing the reforms of Vatican II, which officially absolved the Jews of deicide, and who seems intent on convincing the world that, indeed, the Jews killed Jesus."
The Jews are just as culpable of deicide as the rest of us sinners out here. Why does this guy think they get a pass from humanity's common condition of sinfulness before GOD?
The Blood of Jesus will always be both a blessing and a curse. A blessing for those who receive Him and a curse for those who reject Him.
Mel Gibson and the Holocaust
Jews who want to crucify Mel Gibson (producer/director of the new movie "The Passion of Christ") for remarks putting the Holocaust in context are wrong.
The Nazis killed 6 million Jews in concentration camps and rural ditches. The Nazis also killed 6 million disabled, gays, Roma (gypsies), and political opponents. They worked slave labourers from the East to death. These are no less crimes than killing Jews.
In the 20th century, more millions of civilians died in the USSR, Cambodia, China, Ruanda-Burundi, India, Pakistan, the Balkans, and many other places, deliberately killed because of their religion, race, class, caste, tribe or political leanings.
In millennia past, many more victims were massacred by conquerors. Jews have no monopoly on suffering, Nazis no monopoly on terror.
It is wrong everywhere whenever people are suspected and persecuted because of their religion, race, class, caste, tribe or political leanings. We must recognise and fight any such tendency in other countries, and especially in our own country and our own heart.
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Ottawa ON Canada
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