Posted by IsoM on July 20, 2002, at 14:04:24
In reply to Lou's response to Mair's post » mair, posted by Lou Pilder on July 20, 2002, at 13:06:20
If someone were to say “My Jewish neighbour burned their store down to collect fire insurance” would that be construed as anti-Semitic? Or if someone said “My Christian neighbour committed adultery with his co-worker” would that be anti-Christian? How about when news reports state that Islamic fundamentalists bomb a market place? Or when Muslim & Orthodox Catholics murder each other in another hot spot? Was it anti-Sikh when it was said that Indira Gandhi’s assassins were her Sikh bodyguards?
Get real! It’s reporting all the facts, rather the bare bones, of what happened. When the news state that a murderer was a 45 year old male postal employee, it’s not discriminating against men, postal employees, or 45 year olds & no on in their right mind thinks that.
“What book depicts Jews as hypocrites, apostates, liars, and sinners? What book denounces Jewish leaders and the Jewish nation? What book scolds its priests, claims its Temple services are corrupt, and spews forth warnings that God's judgments will fall upon the Jews? What book - accusing the Jews of murder, corruption, greed, and robbery - declares that they have forsaken God?
“Yet the book described in the opening paragraph is not the New Testament - it is the Old! Indeed, if the criteria for determining anti-Judaism in the New Testament were applied to the Old, it would be declared the more anti-Jewish of the two.”
(quoted from Is the New Testament Anti-Semitic? by Clifford Goldstein, Liberty, March/April 1992 - http://www.cdn-friends-icej.ca/antiholo/newtest.html )In fact, some of the strongest rhetoric comes from the book of Ezekiel (Yehezkel or Yichezq'el of the Hebrew Tanach). In Ezekiel 3:7, it says “But the house of Israel will not consent to hearken unto thee; for they consent not to hearken unto Me; for all the house of Israel are of a hard forehead and of a stiff heart.” A Jewish prophet writing in the Jewish Tanach for the Jewish people… hmm. Was he anti-Semitic?
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