You'll find that right here as well.
This is a ch__ch. What's missing?
Posted on 01/14/2006 5:04:46 PM PST by cgk
THERE IS ONE good thing about anti-Semitism: It lets you know who the bad guys are. Right, left, black, white, freak or straight, the minute someone starts rattling on about the evil Jews, you know your train just pulled into Slimeball Station.
All bigotry is wrong, of course, but there's something about this particular form of prejudice that's weirdly reliable as a sign of deeper wickedness. Perhaps it's because the Jews contributed so much to humanity's moral code that to hate them as a race is to despise the restraints of morality itself
Whatever the reason, true, virulent anti-Semitism is such a good indicator of the presence of evil that I'm tempted to believe that when God made the Jews his chosen people, this is what he chose them for: to be a sort of Villainy Early Detection System for everyone else.
Unfortunately, in his infinite love for his creation, I suspect the Big Guy may have overestimated our intelligence. Maybe he thought that after Hitler we'd just, you know, like, get it. Instead, we still see apparently intelligent people appeasing, making excuses for and even embracing the sorts of stinkers who ought to set off the Big Alarm.
That's why I think the system could use more bells and whistles — a loud honking noise perhaps, or closed captioning for the morally impaired. Thus, when Iranian President Ahmadinejad says the Holocaust is a "myth" or Israel "must be wiped off the map," you would hear a loud honk and words would appear in the air below his face: "Hello. I am an evil madman. Please stop negotiating with me now and proceed to cripple my nuclear capability by any means necessary."
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Our faith doesn't allow us to be antisemitic. Of course if we see evil, then we can call it evil.
Good points.
Am beat, and am off to bed. Have a blessed night you two!
Yep, I think it goes together.
Let us hope.
Nighty night, Jay.
As a Christian, I feel bound to my Jewish brothers and sisters and have no patience for those who defame and hate them.
Amen.
You'll find that right here as well.
This is a ch__ch. What's missing?
TERRIFIC essay. PING!
---- I've had this dicussion on more than one occassion with Jewish friends who are virulently anti-gun. I just don't understand how they can be anti-self-defense....after all that history shows. ----
The irony about being "anti-gun" is that those guns just don't go off unless you take them out of their protective case/cabinet, load them, point them, then pull the trigger.
If someone is concerned about gun safety, they can still own a gun, just don't use it unless personal safety is an issue.
bttt
Yes it is very clear why God chose the Jews. I believe he did not choose every Jew but rather he chose the human line through Abraham, his lineage from which to bring forth the promised Redeemer, and the choice was made after testing Abraham.
Abraham was obedient and was willing to do that which God would do, to wit, to give his only begotten son Isaac by Sarah, to be sacificed on an altar according to God's command.
Abraham's obedience, although he was reluctant to obey, demonstrated his devotion to God.
Abraham and Sarah waited 900 years for a child and were without hope when Sarah miraculously became pregnant with Isaac. And then after Isaac was born and grew into a young man, God commanded Abraham to kill Isaac on an altar on a mountain. Although it was only a test of Abraham's obedience, it must have pained Abraham greatly who was not aware that it was only a test.
I believe Abraham's willingness and devotion to sacrifice his only child on an altar was a precursor to God's plan to sacrifice His only Son on the Cross.
Abraham took Isaac up in the mountain and tied him down on the altar. As he prepared to kill Isaac, he was commanded to stop and was told that it was only a test of his love for God. From that moment on, Isaac was renamed Israel.
Jews exhibit the same traits both good and bad as any other human line. But non Jewish Christians should treat each Jew with a special nod that they carry a piece, even a very small piece, of Abraham, the line that brought forth Jesus. Jews should be treated with honor because of Abraham.
I think you could correctly classify some anti-gun feelings as hysteria.
I watched a fellow female law student TREMBLE as she handled an UNLOADED shot gun that was part of a mock trial. I mean the fear is beyond anything that is rational. She declared after the practice session "I hate guns and anyone who owns one." Well, well, well.....as you might imagine, I took the opportunity to point out that not one gun had ever jumped up, loaded itself and with malice aforethought SHOT someone. I asked her why she thought she was safer because she had no way to equalize the size/strenth differential between herself and the average man. She stuttered.
Reality just never, ever enters the mind of a liberal.
"I was really distressed in church this week when the pastor mentioned the "suffering of the Palestinians",..."
They can't be suffering since, like the remaining 99.99999% of humanity they're not God's "chosen people."
Right on. I'm so sick of this Jewish Supremacist garbage. Does any Gentile really think about how atrociously arrogant the belief that the Jews are God's chosen is? That means anyone who is not a Jew (Gentiles) are not God's chosen ones. If the Gentiles are not God's chosen, what is their status? Soulless trash? Useful idiots?
God's chosen people. Chosen for what?
Study the Bible. There you'll find the answer.
Study the Talmud. It's a better source.
to believe that when God made the Jews his chosen people
This is Old Testament. New Testament says "He who rejects Me also rejects the one who sent me." and this little gem: "Whosoever rejects me in front of men, so shall I reject Him on the day of Judgement in the Father's presence".
Right on. The "Christians" who support the idea that the Jews are "God's Chosen" are idiots who know nothing of their own religion.
Occasionally the L.A. Times publishes something that is worth reading.
There's a Jewish joke that says that when God offered to give them a Commandment and Moses asked Him "How much," God said "they're free," whereupon Moses said "I'll take ten please."
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