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To: Illbay
NO, sorry if I was not clear.

Until a few decades ago --- that is, for almost 1700 years -- the Catholic church held the Jews as a people responsible for the death of Christ. It was not uncommon --- and many pogroms started this way -- for a Christian upon recognizing a stranger to be a Jew to say to him, "You killed Christ." In Central and Eastern Europe, for centuries, Jewish mothers would not let children out during Easter: those reterning from Church where the death of Christ is reenacted during that holiday would often beat any Jew on the way --- because that Jew killed Christ.

This is where "the same 3% that rejected Christ" comes from. So I merely restated what the current Pope finally stated as well: those people are dead.

If one wants to concentrate on the presently living people, then those not believing that Christ was a messiah are now a majority in the Western world, so why continue to concentrate on 3% (Jews, who do not indeed accept that Jesus was the messiah).

Sorry my post was confusing.

226 posted on 04/03/2003 7:34:55 PM PST by TopQuark
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To: TopQuark
the Catholic church held the Jews as a people responsible for the death of Christ.

Do you have a source for such a serious claim, or is this just more bigotry?

245 posted on 04/03/2003 7:42:52 PM PST by honway
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To: TopQuark
It was confusing and begs the question. What are you gonna do about the New Testament. Who is Jesus?
272 posted on 04/03/2003 7:57:49 PM PST by sauropod (If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy...)
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