And there's glaring evidence of their presence on this very thread.
This is a ch__ch. What's missing?
Posted on 01/18/2006 1:12:45 PM PST by BobDobbs9911
Why Do “Jewish Organizations” Promote Hate Between Jew and Christian?
© Rabbi Daniel Lapin
During November, the head of the Anti-Defamation League declared Christians to be the enemies of Jews. “Their goal is to implement their Christian worldview, to Christianize America, to save us!" he said. He proceeded to name names: "Major players include Focus on the Family. Alliance Defense Fund, the American Family Association, Family Research Council and more. They and other groups have established new organizations and church-based networks, and built infrastructure throughout the country designed to promote traditional Christian values."
Where do these traditional Christian values come from? Why, from the Bible of course. Remember that book? The one God gave to the Israelites at Mount Sinai a little over 3,000 years ago. Would you tell me please which ‘traditional Christian values” could be opposed by any Jew who took the Torah seriously? In attacking Torah values, the ADL’s leader clearly indicates that his organization is driven by Democratic Party doctrine, not by Jewish values. Jewish values derive from the Bible. But one isn’t supposed to say that.
Have you noticed? In a weird sort of Alice-in-Wonderland reversal of reality, people now utter apologetic disclaimers whenever they quote something Biblical. It wasn’t so long ago that failing to incorporate Biblical metaphors into your conversation labeled you an ignoramus. Now, for the first time in 500 years, people utterly ignorant of the Bible still think of themselves as educated.
Stop the defensiveness already. Whether Jew or Christian, you need to know this book. It is the only book never to be out of print since 1452 when it became the first book ever printed. It is the book in which is enshrined the moral code of western civilization. It is the book which inspired Isaac Newton to probe and reveal secrets of science. It is the book that encouraged Oliver Cromwell to rebel against King Charles 1.
It is the book which stirred Samuel Taylor Coleridge to write, “In the Bible I have found words for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterances for my hidden griefs.” It is the book from which sprang the Founders’ vision for America. It is your legacy. Know it and quote from it.
I told you all that only so I could tell you this: Biblical morality declares peace to be more important even than truth. Or to put it a bit more accurately, peace is one of the elements that defines truth. If you didn’t understand this, you’d have to accept that God lies. In fact, God appears to have lied to none other than His first devotee, our father Abraham. Here is what happened.
In Genesis chapter 18, God’s angel informed one-hundred-year-old Abraham that during the following year, his ninety-year-old wife, Sarah would have a son. The next verse reads: “Now Sarah was listening from behind the door.” This is followed by Sarah laughing to herself at the very notion of an elderly couple having a son. She explicitly says in verse twelve, “…and my husband is far too old.”
God seems to lie in the very next verse, distorting what made Sarah laugh. “And God said to Abraham, ‘why did Sarah laugh at the news saying ‘How could I give birth with me as old as I am? ” God told Abraham that Sarah laughed at her own age. In fact, she didn’t laugh at the thought of her own age as much as she laughed at her husband being too old. That is exactly what she said in verse twelve . Yet God changed the facts when He reported Sarah’s laughter to Abraham.
Ancient Jewish wisdom points out that the Bible is a moral guide not a history book. Thus it teaches humanity that peace, in this case between husband and wife, is more important than recitation of facts. What is more, it explains that an ultimately truthful report would have to take into account how horrified Sarah would have been had she embarrassed her husband. For this reason, God reported Sarah’s laughter as having been the result of contemplating her own age rather than doubting her husband’s virility.
That is how important peace is to Judaism. Peace isn’t the highest value of all; it can’t be pursued, for example, at the price of betrayal, defeat, or dishonor. But gratuitously picking fights and encouraging disharmony is abhorrent. Doing so to one’s friends is even worse. Peace between American Jew and American Christian is not only achievable, it is a beautiful reality. If you think about it, this peace is an amazing historic development. But more importantly, it is a brotherhood of destiny. What on earth motivates those so-called Jewish organizations who jeopardize it?
If America is to prevail against Islamic terror and once again save Western civilization, American Jews and American Christians must link arms. This great struggle which threatens to plunge, not just Europe but the whole world back into darkness and primitivism is ultimately a struggle between the culture of the Koran and the twin civilizations of the Bible. Only if we, who sprang from the Bible, stand firm can we hope to prevail.
If America is to stand with Israel, American Jews and Americans Christian must link arms. The Washington Post reported how Donald E. Wildmon, chairman of the evangelical American Family Association, warned in a Dec. 5th 2005 radio broadcast that Foxman was fighting the very people who are the strongest supporters of Israel. "The more he says that 'you people are destroying this country,' you know, some people are going to begin to get fed up with this and say, 'Well, all right then. If that's the way you feel, then we just won't support Israel anymore.' " I know Don Wildmon and he is a philo-Semitic supporter of Israel. He is not saying that he will stop loving Jews and Israel. He is warning that many people finally tire of being endlessly kicked by those they considered their friends, and eventually change their minds.
If America is to restore its culture, banish vulgarity, and resist those who would remake it in Europe’s image, American Jews and American Christians must link arms.
In the face of these mighty challenges, Mr. Foxman of the ADL, and Rabbi Eric Yoffie of the Reform Jewish movement see fit to try and destroy peace between American Christian and American Jew. In mid-November, Rabbi Yoffie insisted that anyone who opposes homosexuality is like Hitler. That is right, Rabbi Yoffie is saying that adhering to the words of Leviticus makes me a Nazi!
Mr. Foxman denounced by name, organizations like Focus on the Family. Alliance Defense Fund, the American Family Association, and Family Research Council. I have spoken for these fine organizations on numerous occasions. Whenever I have done so, my speeches were Torah-based words of an Orthodox rabbi. These organizations which Mr. Foxman not so subtly suggests are anti-Jewish applauded my remarks. I have broadcast and socialized with Dr. James Dobson, the founder of Focus on the Family; he is a Bible-loving supporter of Israel and friend of the Jewish people. Alan Sears, the head of Alliance Defense Fund is a dear friend and is deeply committed to Biblical values. His organization does outstanding work and is supported by many members of Toward Tradition as indeed it ought to be. The American Family Association and Family Research Council both stand for the basic unit of social organization—the family. What Jew committed to Jewish values would not support these excellent organizations that advocate for the life model recommended by the Bible?
Peace is a foundational Jewish value. Those who try to bring about peace and maintain it are acting in accordance with Biblical values. Those who undermine it and attempt to replace it with enmity are acting in accordance with some other set of values. I am not sure what it is but I am sure it isn’t Jewish.
Rabbi Daniel Lapin
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True. While the KJV may be aesthetic, it is a third rate translation. Thje goyim of England should have been smart enough to hire Jews to do the job.
I noted the " " as well, but he's paraphrasing, he's not presenting that as a translation from Hebrew. Which wouldn't follow the KJV either. His interpritation isn't traditional.
What do you expect, Rabbi Lapin is Jewish after all.
No, not if you have the audacity to post on the internet.
Otherwise known as doing the Muslim Brotherhood's work.
And there's glaring evidence of their presence on this very thread.
This is a ch__ch. What's missing?
It goes beyond that.
In his first campaign for Governor GWB indicated on a written questionnaire that Jews (perhaps non-Christians) don’t go the heaven. Stupid, baiting, question.
When asked about his response by a reporter, he answered that he was running for Governor, and that the Governor of Texas doesn’t make those decisions, God does.
A perfectly appropriate answer.
Rather than sitting on their hands, I perceive an element of hostility, even hatred in many replacement theology advocates. I can’t imagine that’s a true reflection of their faith. Or where it comes from.
Yes, when we were in ancient Egypt with Joseph's leadership we blessed Egypt mightily. After Joseph had died Paro thanked us by hating us and by turning us into slaves to cover for his own inadequacies as a human being.
R. Lapin continues the tradition that religious Jews have had in helping to lift up the world out of its ignorance and visceral, unjustified hatred that has been passed down from Kayin (Cain) which manifests itself today on this website as anti-Semitism.
Will FR do the right thing and zot the anti-Semitic elements we have seen today expressing their ignorance and hatred? Let's wait and see.
Bob
One of the problems of barring Jews from your country is a lack of Hebrew translators. They did the best they could.
I really don't believe that TRUE Christians are EVER going to turn their backs on the Jews. No matter what. We, who have read the Bible, know and understand what our relationship to the Jews is. After all, Jesus and all of his disciples were Jews. To turn away from the Jews, would be to turn away from Jesus and the Prophets of old. I just ignore the Christian haters. It doesn't bother me.
"Secular organizations and individuals have absolutely no business claiming to speak for the organized Jewish community when G-d A-mighty has established an official leadership for that community: the Orthodox rabbinate."
But the world sees us as one people regardless of whether we walk the path of Torah or the Communist Manifesto. There is much teaching by the rabbis about the oneness of the Jewish people even when on the surface there is much division. When Messiah comes Jews will be unified body and soul that will be obvious to all the nations. Until that time the religious have to still treat Shumer et al of that persuasion as part of the Jewish family. We can't hold their beliefs against them because we desire so badly for them to come back to Torah.
We grieve when we see the Socialist Jewish organizations do and say things that will only end up creating more anti-Semitism and hatred toward us. Because when the anti-Semitism gains a certain critical mass all Jews will suffer not just the religious ones. It's happened in the distant past as well as in modern times.
In the Book of Esther Mordechai tells Esther that she will suffer the same fate of death eventually even though she might be the queen of the nation and hiding her jewish identity.
Bob
But there are Christians out there that are not as educated as you about the issues we face. How many do you think are out there like you within the Christian community nationally? How many Christians know that Jesus was a Jew, spoke Hebrew (and Aramaic), drank wine, and did not speak King James English?
Most Christians are ignorant of their roots.
In Nazi Germany many Christians disagreed with Hitler about the treatment of Jews. Hitler took them to the gas chambers, too if they we discovered to be sympathizers of Jews.
Bob
I am not sure if churchillbuff believes in replacement theology which is wrong. RT believes that the Church has replaced the Jews as God's chosen people. I believe that to be wrong. God has not forsaken his people, the Jews, but will gather them and save them at the end which is most likely very soon.
Well, shall we deport all these LIBERAL Jews back to Israel for this?
No. Send them to France.
Rabbi Lapin is more solid biblically than most CINOs in liberal mainline CINO denominations. He and other Orthodox Jews are much closer in many ways and have more in common with conservative Christians than liberals in various CINO denominations. Give me Rabbi Lapin over "father" Andrew Greely, "bishop" John Shelby Spong, or "sister" Joan Chittister any day of the week!
As always, Esther Ruth, you hit the nail on the head! Exactly!
Ping!
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