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To: TopQuark
Foxman's real opposition is to the Gospels. Talk about chutzpah. Can you imagine anything more incediary than a group of people from one religion telling another group of people from another religion what they must and must not believe? I'm appalled--and stunned--by the arrogance of such people. How can this not arouse resentment?
20 posted on 02/21/2004 8:10:50 AM PST by ultima ratio
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To: ultima ratio
Foxman's real opposition is to the Gospels.

That is what you think. And you are wrong.

Each story may be told differently and undestood differently. One can emphasize blood and destruction to whip up anger and entice people into action. One can emphasize love and compassion with an oppoisite effect.

Further, the question in this issue is around what constitutes "Jews," and what constitutes "Romans."

Talk about chutzpah. Can you imagine anything more incediary than a group of people from one religion telling another group of people from another religion what they must and must not believe?

I completele agree with you. The chutzpah of those Crusaders that wiped out whole Jewish villages on the Rhine; the chutzpah of all those Papal decrees; the chutzpah of thise Church Fathers prohibiting a Chrsitian to befriend a Jew; chutzpah of the English expelling their Jewish fellow citizens in 1190 for FOUR HUNDRED years; chutzpah of Isabella the Catholic doing the same in 1492 --- and financing the second trip of Columbus with the looted possessions of those she expelled (she was a really nice, fair lady and expelled the Gypsies as well). I can continue, but no need: I agree with you.

One other thing you forget: gospels are written by people about certain events. Jews were there too; they have memory. In fact, gospels are written BY the Jews and about a Jew. So only those who accept the divinity of Christ are allowed to have memory? Whose is arrogant now?

I'm appalled--and stunned-- As you can see, for all thw wrong reasons. And after all, you got worked up for nothing: nobody, including this idiot Foxman, told you what to believe in.

53 posted on 02/21/2004 5:03:41 PM PST by TopQuark
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