[Alouette]

can you tell me if "a literally killing anti-Christian jihad" is lurking below the surface of your theology?

Since HiTech is making the claim, maybe he can help us out by providing a list of beheading and honor killings carried out by ultra-Orthodox Jews over, say, the past 10 years.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Quite salutarily, there haven't been any "in the last 10 years." And from an earthly point of view at least, one hopes this detente will last forever. They have tried diligently to avoid the fault lines between themselves and Christians as much as they possibly can. Hence the bitter criticism of such as Bloom for writing books like Postville that have the effect of stirring things up rather than letting sleeping dogs lie.

If one looks at early New Testament times, when the Christian church was comprised mostly of lineal Jews and gentile proselytes who had come first to the Jewish faith, a different story emerges. To choose to be a Christian and to preach it was often viewed, frankly, as a killing offense, even though these Christians are not recorded as ever having put the sword to their nonbelieving Jewish counterparts. Such out of character behavior on part of the church was to come later, when the church had become virtually all gentile.