Posted on 05/21/2014 5:12:03 PM PDT by IsraelBeach
Could it simply be translation error ?shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
Why do you call Jesus “Christ”?
Does the author not know that it means God’s annointed ?
“That’s because “modern day Christians” understand that someone that could raise himself from the dead was not able to be held to a cross by a couple of nails. It was his love for all mankind, and all our individual sins. As we say, if you want to blame someone for Jesus’s death blame me, it was my sin he was paying for on that cross. “
Excellent! Exactly what I was taught as a child.
No kidding!
This man is an over-sensitive idiot.
My father used this expression occasionally, not because of any intent to be offensive, or for that matter because of any anti-semitic animus, but because it was a common expression when he was growing up. He told me he was actually an adult before he realized that there was a connection between the verb "to jew" and the Jewish people.
Turning my dad into some kind of anti-semite because of a simple turn of phrase that is used with no ill intent at all is ludicrous.
I also doubt the author's story. I haven't heard this expression used, at least in public and unironically, for at least a decade.
The notion that something that is just a saying, and one that is archaic, somehow tells us something significant about America is truly idiotic.
Very well said!
The author is an idiot. He is attempting to foment anti-Semitism, not combat it.
It isn't libel, if it's true. Not ALL of the Jews were complicit in Jesus's death, but some of the most important Jewish leaders of the day certainly were, and conspired with Rome to crucify Him. Just because some Jewish leaders were threatened by Jesus, and conspired to have him killed to make sure He didn't threaten them anymore, doesn't make me hate Jews of today. I frankly don't know any Christians who DO hate Jewish people, so it seems there hasn't been some sort of attempt by the Church to make me hate them.
Except the Irish. They're too drunk to care.
The only people responsible for the substitutionaryshalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
death of the Lamb of G-d are those who have accepted
Yah'shua as their savior.
Antisemitic incidents have been a problem in Israel and have come from Russian, German and other cultures at various times. Promoting idolatry in any way is wrong.
By the way, sentiments against the people of Israel will be stopped in time. Hopefully, that time will come soon. For those who are comfortable and afraid of toughening change, the coming of that time cannot be slowed. It can only be hastened by those who erroneously wish to put it off.
Very true. It was common while I was growing up in the 1950s and ‘60s to hear some say “He jew’d me out of it!” No one I knew of had any idea it had anything thing to do with the Jewish people. We thought it was slang for gypped. We didn’t even know any Jewish people outside of the Bible.
Now that there is funny.
"Gypped" is of course equally an ethnic slur, on the Gypsies.
For some reason it's a good deal more common than "jew down" and widely considered less offensive.
My boss once, in a training session, casually used the term "Jewish lightning" to refer to arson.
Unfortunately for him, there were a couple of Jewish guys in the group we were training, and they went straight to the CEO of the company with their complaints. LOL
Now that there is funny.
"Gypped" is of course equally an ethnic slur, on the Gypsies.
For some reason it's a good deal more common than "jew down" and widely considered less offensive.
My boss once, in a training session, casually used the term "Jewish lightning" to refer to arson.
Unfortunately for him, there were a couple of Jewish guys in the group we were training, and they went straight to the CEO of the company with their complaints. LOL
100% correct. The writer surely knows that the Pope cannot simply strike out sentences from the Gospels. He is trolling for reactions.
Secondly, blaming only Jews for the death of Jesus is a nice way to whitewash the blame -- truly speaking ALL of us: Jews, Christians, non-Christians etc. are the ones who killed Him with our sin
Looking at the purely temporal, then a Jewish crowd led by the Priestly council wanted this trouble-maker, possible heretic dead. They petitioned the Roman authority who actually carried out the Crucification.
Netanyahu should reguest that the Pope denounce any belief that the Jews killed Christ. -- earlier Popes have denounced the idea of blaming only Jews as "Christ killers" -- and that is correct.
The only thing worse than being a racist, is denying that one is a racist. You do not define someone by race. That it was a "common expression" is no excuse for using it. Are we to allow racist comments to become "common"?
The Nazis would also say that I was a "over-sensitive idiot". Try using this racist expression to someone wearing an Israel Defense Forces uniform.
Watch the words you use in everyday conversation and delete those words which offend or discriminate.
Educate people not to use hate speech!
Being a racist, defined by you as occasionally using a racially-originating term without malicious intent, is the absolute worse thing a person can do, except of course for denying that one is a racist.
Really?
My Dad, occasionally using such a term without ill intent, was "worse than" a child molester, a mass murderer or a rapist? Do you really care to stick to your guns that being "a racist," especially by the very mild definition you insist on, is the very worst thing a person can be?
If so, perhaps you'd care to explain this remarkable assertion?
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