Posted on 05/20/2008 11:43:09 AM PDT by Alexius
Orthodox Jews set fire to hundreds of copies of the New Testament in the latest act of violence against Christian missionaries in the Holy Land. Or Yehuda Deputy Mayor Uzi Aharon said missionaries recently entered a neighborhood in the predominantly religious town of 34,000 in central Israel, distributing hundreds of New Testaments and missionary material. After receiving complaints, Aharon said, he got into a loudspeaker car last Thursday and drove through the neighborhood, urging people to turn over the material to Jewish religious students who went door to door to collect it. "The books were dumped into a pile and set afire in a lot near a synagogue," he said. The newspaper Maariv reported Tuesday that hundreds of yeshiva students took part in the book-burning. But Aharon told The Associated Press that only a few students were present, and that he was not there when the books were torched. "Not all of the New Testaments that were collected were burned, but hundreds were," he said.
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Jews should know better about book burnings...
What a surprise -- a liberal rag exaggerating to suit their agenda.
a handful of jackasses, there’s some in every group.
Wait a sec.
If they were given these New Testament books, they are free to do with them what they want, right?
They didn’t burn the missionaries, they burnt the books.
And isn’t there a rule about forced evangilizing in the very orthodox areas of Israel?
Maybe I’m wrong, can you help Alouette?
But they shouldn't give the appearance of emulating their worst modern persecutors.
And isn’t there a rule about forced evangilizing in the very orthodox areas of Israel?
What's "forced" about what the missionaries did?
I don't know. I wouldn't exactly take the mayor's word for it either. Look for footage of the burnings.
Well that may be so but that does not take away from the barbarism of burning the New Testament.
Exactly. But maybe the government schools are as bad over there as they are here and they don't learn their own history.
Seems like yeshiva students are just as ignorant of history as public school students are in our own country. Who was it that said “Once they start burning books they will be burning people next?” Sad. :(
Jews burning books??? Amazing! I guess it just slipped their minds that the people of the area can simply ***ignore*** the missionaries and any literature they might hand out.
...set fire to hundreds of copies of the New Testament in the latest act of violence against Christian missionaries...
How is setting books on fire "violence"? Is this like the new lib-speak "verbal violence" crap?
I believe that the Bible is God's Word but the paper itself is not to be revered. I would like it to be respected sure, but now it's "violence" to burn them?
I may be wrong in my term. But I think there are areas where the really Orthodox have ruled like a “no solicitors” rule. Where a person can live without missionaries (you know, like the one's I get at my front door) passing out stuff.
Here in MI, we have that rule in my city. It's stopped the publications and well dressed couples from ringing my doorbell.
Besides what I read, about six students did this. In my neighborhood they'd have a parent called and get pulled home by the ear. (after they cleaned up the mess)
These Orthodox Jews have that Law in them and it works wrath, even against those who would lay down their life for Israel. Wrath because they have no covering for their sin and can only follow a set of Laws that their fathers couldn't even follow.
Faith in the death burial and resurrection will set them at liberty. The New testament is just words written on paper and burning it is hardly barbaric.
>>Well that may be so but that does not take away from the barbarism of burning the New Testament.<<
Barbarism? I’m not sure I agree with you on this.
We are Christians, we don’t get in a tizzy about disrespect for paper.
Why are you posting this? Are you trying to incite a flamewar between Jews and Christians?
The difference between a few pyro-happy students and hundreds is quite significant, actually. The former shouldn't be a story at all. ...especially if no one was injured.
I think that they are trying to equate Christians with Muslims and provoke the same type of reaction as Muslims to the burning of the Koran.
lol...drama queen.
Wow. Would you feel the same way if it were Muhammadans doing this? Or burning the Torah?
So you don’t see the problem of Jewish students, regardless of number, being involved in book burning?
Or Yehuda Deputy Mayor Uzi Aharon said missionaries recently ... distributing hundreds of New Testaments and missionary material. After receiving complaints, Aharon said, he got into a loudspeaker car .. and drove through the neighborhood, urging people to turn over the material to Jewish religious students who went door to door to collect it.Calling Abe Foxman and the ADL. please pick up the White Courtesy phone."The books were dumped into a pile and set afire in a lot near a synagogue," he said. "Not all of the New Testaments that were collected were burned, but hundreds were," he said.
"I certainly don't denounce the burning of the booklets, he said. I denounce those who distributed the booklets."
Police had no immediate comment.
Earlier this year, the teenage son of a prominent Christian missionary was seriously wounded when a package bomb delivered to the family's West Bank home went off in his hands.
Last year, arsonists burst into a Jerusalem church used by Messianic Jews and set the building on fire, raising suspicions that Jewish extremists were behind the attack. No one claimed responsibility, but the same church was burned down 25 years ago by ultra-Orthodox Jewish extremists.
Some people just neeeeeeever learn.
So would you be okay with Muhammadans gathering up Torah scrolls and burning them?
The threadmeister has not a clue as to what real barbarism is.
I don’t know. I find it barbaric when people burn things they don’t like. Especially my Sacred Scriptures.
I think it was wrong for those students to burn those books.
I think it is wrong for people to blame all Jews for the actions of a few ignorant students.
And I think it’s very wrong for someone to post a thread like this and attempt to goad Jews and Christians into fighting each other, at a time when we need to stand together to face the threat of Islamic terrorism.
Should we ignore news stories from an Israeli Paper about Jews burning Christians Scripture for the sake of not causing disharmony?
>>Wow. Would you feel the same way if it were Muhammadans doing this? Or burning the Torah? <<
I wouldn’t call it barbaric. Just like saying that a Koran was flushed shouldn’t get the Muslims in a tizzy.
It was tasteless and something that I don’t like, but understanding that it was six students, come on. It’s paper.
Now if a bunch of people smashed a church, yes I would be upset, because it is someone else’s property. But these books were given away.
You see tons of them in the trash at airports. I don’t think that’s barbaric. In poor taste, yes.
Okay. So it’s a matter of numbers then.
Name calling. Good for you. You are a giant.
>>Earlier this year, the teenage son of a prominent Christian missionary was seriously wounded when a package bomb delivered to the family’s West Bank home went off in his hands. <<
Don’t Muslims hate Christian Missionaries? Isn’t it the Muslims who use bombs?
Just saying.
Just exposing you for who you — a troublestarting drama queen.
It’s hilarious that you are choosing to attack me rather than deal with the fact that you are defending the indefensible.
Christians love Jerusalem and the Jewish people. Jerusalem is spoken of throughout the New Testament.
I say this because Jews and Christians have a bond and that is Israel. Islam is a made up religion revolving around vengeance. All the writings in all the books are just paper and ink.
Jesus said, Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words wont, and no amount of burning of the New Testament can change that.
Who did that?
Exactly, burn em, flush em..Christ will still forgive, and so will Christians.
Now try this with the Koran.
Besides, the Romans already tried this (metaphorically, they just used Christians since they didn’t have bibles)...it doesn’t work
>>So you don’t see the problem of Jewish students, regardless of number, being involved in book burning?<<
I think it was a ridiculously stupid move on the part of those students who didn’t at all catch the irony of the situation.
I hope each of them get the smackdown from their parents when they get home.
But I’m not going to look down on Israel because of some students.
Geez, I hope they don’t judge us by the Berkley campus!!!!!!
Ah, I see you missed my post #24. ....or just conveniently ignored it. I clearly condemned the idiots who did this.
So because Muslims are barbarians, Jews get a free pass.
And you are a lightweight who can't process information that counters your binary thinking. But hey keep looking like a idiot you seem to enjoy it.
They are words are paper...but they are not *just* words.
What do you suppose these folks are so worried about? If they were JUST words on paper, they wouldn’t care a bit.
Oh please. You give away free bibles, you won’t like what happens to some of them. That’s life.
>>So because Muslims are barbarians, Jews get a free pass<<
No. It’s the reactions.
The Muslims freak out when the “Holy Book” is touched.
Christians go, “Wow, that’s nasty.” and go on because we know that the power is not in the pages but in the words themselves.
But it was enormously stupid for the students to burn them, just for how it looks.
I’m sorry that the American educational system failed you as it did.
And actually, it made the kids look just plain dumb.
The FReepers are shaking their heads at the Irony. It’s a Duh moment.
lol...nice argument there, Alexius. Run out of moronic things to say? You’ve certainly run the gamut.
HA! Great minds think alike!!! Look at 47.
They know how it looks, they don’t care. That’s their decision.
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