Thank you Pat. Your outspoken support in this increasingly frightening world of hate for Jews is wonderful. Do you agree with the following? When talking about October 7, I no longer say that ‘Hamas’ invaded Israel - I say ‘Gaza’ invaded Israel. The majority of Gazans support the invasion, and Hamas alone didn’t perpetrate these crimes. Not only had tens of thousands of ‘innocent’ Gazan civilians aided in the attack by providing Hamas with layouts of the neighbourhoods and kibbutzim in southern Israel where they had worked, they gleefully joined in the brutality as well. When talking about the war in the Ukraine, we don’t say that Putin invaded the Ukraine, we say that Russia invaded the Ukraine…
Pat, what you have written is sadly, basically true... for which I as a Christian Zionist, am very ashamed and disgusted.
However, I do want to say that I had never heard of any of these horrible blood libels, growing up in a Baptist church, until I began to research it on my own, in my mid-20's. I'd always held favorable impressions of Israel and Jewish people, so I was horrified to find out about the bizarre, anti-Jewish accusations by supposed Christians (particularly the Catholic church, as well as those "Protestants" still influenced by it). It started me on a life-long journey to learn more about Judaism, the history of Jewish-Christian relations, and the Holocaust.
There is a complexity to this issue most don't realize ...
While it is true that many antisemitic accusations such as blood libels do have their origin in historical, official "Church teachings" in the past, those are not held by most Christians of any sort today, especially "Evangelical' Christians.
This is not a 'denomination', but rather a view of scripture that emphasizes personal faith, with the Bible as the foundation. This viewpoint has existed within - and often in opposition to - official "Christianity" all along, but particularly in the past couple hundred years. Even the Roman Catholic Church, which has much to repent of in this regard, under Pope John Paul II, finally repudiated blaming the Jews for Jesus' death - along with all the other terrible persecutions that emerged from it. The New Testament is clear that Jesus willingly gave himself as the ultimate sacrifice for all sin, as a complete fulfillment of the symbolic Passover lamb. (Original biblical Judaism was indeed a religion of blood sacrifice, by the way.) But the comparison made during the "Last Supper" (a Passover seder) of the bread and wine, to Jesus' impending death, was never intended to cast blame on the Jewish people then, nor now! It's a disgraceful tragedy that this very biblical metaphor, based in a Jewish context, was twisted by ignorant, early non-Jewish "Church leaders" into an excuse for hatred, persecution and violence toward the Jews!
Since the creation of the State of Israel, many more Christians have recognized that it is indeed a miracle of God which affirms that the Jews are still His Chosen People. This is why there is such a strong pro-Israel stand among most "Evangelical Christians" in the US, as well as Latin America, Africa and some areas of Southeast Asia. In Canada and much of Western Europe, sadly, it seems that even many 'Evangelicals' no longer really believe the Bible, and thus fall prey to anti- Israel propaganda.
It is then that the latent, historic antisemitism can manifest. It is in our culture and psyche, yes. More than that, it is also a spiritual force of evil that has arisen in other civilizations as well - of ancient Egypt, Persia and Rome... as well as Islamic and Russian Communist, etc. So it is my view that the antisemitism we see exhibited worldwide today is an even more deeply embedded and evil force than most of us realize. All the more reason to stand strongly and unitedly against it.
Thank you for this. Virtually every person who spreads this grotesque libel knows it's false, but they want to kill Jews, and they (for the most part) can't do that and get away with it. So, they blood-libel Jews instead. It's the next closest thing they can do to hurt Jewish people.
I'm so glad you brought up our kosher laws about not eating even a drop of blood. You, unlike too many goyim, actually know about our religion and ethics. So many anti semites don't even know who they're hating. Many people who live outside the northeast area of the USA never even met a Jew, but they hate us anyway. Thank you
Thank you Pat. Your outspoken support in this increasingly frightening world of hate for Jews is wonderful. Do you agree with the following? When talking about October 7, I no longer say that ‘Hamas’ invaded Israel - I say ‘Gaza’ invaded Israel. The majority of Gazans support the invasion, and Hamas alone didn’t perpetrate these crimes. Not only had tens of thousands of ‘innocent’ Gazan civilians aided in the attack by providing Hamas with layouts of the neighbourhoods and kibbutzim in southern Israel where they had worked, they gleefully joined in the brutality as well. When talking about the war in the Ukraine, we don’t say that Putin invaded the Ukraine, we say that Russia invaded the Ukraine…
Pat, what you have written is sadly, basically true... for which I as a Christian Zionist, am very ashamed and disgusted.
However, I do want to say that I had never heard of any of these horrible blood libels, growing up in a Baptist church, until I began to research it on my own, in my mid-20's. I'd always held favorable impressions of Israel and Jewish people, so I was horrified to find out about the bizarre, anti-Jewish accusations by supposed Christians (particularly the Catholic church, as well as those "Protestants" still influenced by it). It started me on a life-long journey to learn more about Judaism, the history of Jewish-Christian relations, and the Holocaust.
There is a complexity to this issue most don't realize ...
While it is true that many antisemitic accusations such as blood libels do have their origin in historical, official "Church teachings" in the past, those are not held by most Christians of any sort today, especially "Evangelical' Christians.
This is not a 'denomination', but rather a view of scripture that emphasizes personal faith, with the Bible as the foundation. This viewpoint has existed within - and often in opposition to - official "Christianity" all along, but particularly in the past couple hundred years. Even the Roman Catholic Church, which has much to repent of in this regard, under Pope John Paul II, finally repudiated blaming the Jews for Jesus' death - along with all the other terrible persecutions that emerged from it. The New Testament is clear that Jesus willingly gave himself as the ultimate sacrifice for all sin, as a complete fulfillment of the symbolic Passover lamb. (Original biblical Judaism was indeed a religion of blood sacrifice, by the way.) But the comparison made during the "Last Supper" (a Passover seder) of the bread and wine, to Jesus' impending death, was never intended to cast blame on the Jewish people then, nor now! It's a disgraceful tragedy that this very biblical metaphor, based in a Jewish context, was twisted by ignorant, early non-Jewish "Church leaders" into an excuse for hatred, persecution and violence toward the Jews!
Since the creation of the State of Israel, many more Christians have recognized that it is indeed a miracle of God which affirms that the Jews are still His Chosen People. This is why there is such a strong pro-Israel stand among most "Evangelical Christians" in the US, as well as Latin America, Africa and some areas of Southeast Asia. In Canada and much of Western Europe, sadly, it seems that even many 'Evangelicals' no longer really believe the Bible, and thus fall prey to anti- Israel propaganda.
It is then that the latent, historic antisemitism can manifest. It is in our culture and psyche, yes. More than that, it is also a spiritual force of evil that has arisen in other civilizations as well - of ancient Egypt, Persia and Rome... as well as Islamic and Russian Communist, etc. So it is my view that the antisemitism we see exhibited worldwide today is an even more deeply embedded and evil force than most of us realize. All the more reason to stand strongly and unitedly against it.
Thank you for this. Virtually every person who spreads this grotesque libel knows it's false, but they want to kill Jews, and they (for the most part) can't do that and get away with it. So, they blood-libel Jews instead. It's the next closest thing they can do to hurt Jewish people.
I'm so glad you brought up our kosher laws about not eating even a drop of blood. You, unlike too many goyim, actually know about our religion and ethics. So many anti semites don't even know who they're hating. Many people who live outside the northeast area of the USA never even met a Jew, but they hate us anyway. Thank you
Perfectly stated.
Spot on
Where is this ad? And how is it allowed? Can one advertise anything, however false ?
Never came across the one about Jewish men menstruating. Yikes!