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To: bruin66
Don't forget Lieberman...

The Catholic Church's history with Jews is forced conversion (or death), not ex-communication. My wife's family traced their lineage to Spain and the Inquisition where their Jewish surname suddenly changed to a Catholic surname.

57 posted on 04/17/2003 10:17:05 AM PDT by Onelifetogive
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To: Onelifetogive
The Catholic Church's history with Jews is forced conversion (or death

Uh-huh. That's why the majority of the world's Jews lived and thrived in Catholic Europe from the days of the Roman Empire until the pagans invaded Poland in 1939.

Grow up and do some reading.

81 posted on 04/17/2003 10:49:27 AM PDT by wideawake (Support our troops and their Commander-in-Chief)
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To: Onelifetogive
The reason the Church never excommunicated Jews is that Jews were never Catholics. The word "excommunicate" means to place members out of communion with the Church -- in other words, kick them out. People who have never been Catholic don't need to be kicked out. They were never in.
437 posted on 04/19/2003 6:29:58 PM PDT by Knither (that theology minor in college comes in handy now and then.)
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To: Onelifetogive
Please stop with the agenda.
448 posted on 04/20/2003 5:37:42 PM PDT by Conservative til I die (They say anti-Catholicism is the thinking man's anti-Semitism; that's an insult to thinking men)
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