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To: Alberta's Child
I would take great comfort in learning that they were Christians on their way home from a Bible study group meeting.

Of course this is time and/or location dependent. Through out most of the last 2000 years, that has not been the case. Inquisition, crusades, reformation, pogroms, and the holocaust were times of near certain death coming across that same group. And we now see an icredible rise in antisemitism that may well again end in christians killing Jews in the future.

59 posted on 10/15/2010 1:09:30 PM PDT by blasater1960 (Deut 30, Psalm 111...the Torah and the Law, is attainable past, present and forever.)
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To: blasater1960
Blaming Christians for the Holocaust is beyond ignorant. And yes, I realize that I'm saying that to a Jew. Leaving aside Hitler's open hostility to every Christian doctrine, there's this...though this is not an exact quote, it is one that Albert Einstein said reflected his feelings, though his original statement was "more moderate":
Being a lover of freedom, when the revolution came in Germany, I looked to the universities to defend it, knowing that they had always boasted of their devotion to the cause of truth; but, no, the universities immediately were silenced. Then I looked to the great editors of the newspapers whose flaming editorials in days gone by had proclaimed their love of freedom; but they, like the universities, were silenced in a few short weeks... Only the Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler's campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly.

BTW, did you know Muslim extremists now kill more people each year than were killed in the entire Inquisition?

Christian countries in general and America in particular are the only countries where Jews have ever been able to live in peace, and Jews once again have a nation of their own because Christian nations made it happen. Take your bilge elsewhere.

69 posted on 10/15/2010 1:23:26 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (Anyone who says we need illegals to do the jobs Americans won't do has never watched "Dirty Jobs.")
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To: blasater1960

“Through out most of the last 2000 years, that has not been the case.”

Most of 2000 years? Bull. Here and there and only after the church had become a center of power and begun attracting the usual suspects who themselves did not and do not represent the mass of Christians and Christianity itself.


101 posted on 10/15/2010 3:02:40 PM PDT by TalBlack
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