Posted on 03/16/2002 8:03:22 PM PST by churchillbuff
What sin are you talking about?
Just trying to follow you on that.
Bearing false witness,
if you hold that bigotry against the Jews is not a sin.
I've questioned no one's mental state, only their character and spiritual state if you would.
Precisely,
and neither did Graham.
Don't leave out Laura Schlessinger. She went on and on and on about this on her show yesterday.
They think people have a constitutional right to welfare.
ACLU founder Roger Nash Baldwin was a committed communist later breaking with it after Stalin's crimes couldn't be swept under the rug any longer.
I accept Billy Graham's apology.
You don't listen to Billy Graham.
I would have thought this would be a three comment thread. IMO, much of the discussion (defending and excusing his 1971 statements) is demeaning to Billy Graham, though it certainly doesn't demean the man.
What he said was true only more so.
Historically Jews HAVE been a source of great evil.
Jewish philosophers like Marx and Trotsky set the stage for the brutal genocides of the 20th century.
The Jewish dominated media is the dominant force in our current cultural slide and the advancement of every evil political agenda.
On the plus side, where whould physics and the other sciences be without the brilliance of Jewish scientists? Every significant new understanding seemed to spring from the mind of a Jew.
The Bible was written by Jews. God even came to earth as a Jew.
They are unquestionably the chosen people. They stand out in bold relief in whatever they do.
It sometimes seems that in the grand sweep of history, they are the stars and everyone else is just supporting cast.
The Jews are noteworthy for both evil and good. If we dwell on one more than the other, that would be bigoted I suppose. But the greater concern is the promise given the Jews in the Bible:
"I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee."
Jewish control of the major media in the media age makes the enforced silence both paradoxical and paralyzing. Survival in public life requires that you know all about it, but never refer to it. A hypocritical etiquette forces us to pretend that the Jews are powerless victims; and if you don't respect their victimhood, they'll destroy you. It's a phenomenal display not of wickedness relay, but of fierce ethnocentrism, a sort of furtive racial superpatriotism.
As usual, Sobran is right -- Jews constitute a powerful group, yet as a group Jews are immune from criticism. Needless to say, this immunity does not apply to whites, blacks, Arabs, asians, Christians, or Muslims.
It's all so hypocritical it makes me laugh.
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