Posted on 02/27/2007 5:00:07 PM PST by markomalley
The ABC show “The View” can’t give it up. It started with a discussion about James Cameron’s latest Titanic tale—the one about Jesus’ tomb—and it quickly degenerated into another round of mockery. About Catholicism, that is.
Rosie O’Donnell began by demonstrating her command of the Bible by saying, ‘Weren’t, weren’t, wasn’t the Bible written 200 years after the death of Jesus?’ No, it wasn’t, wasn’t, wasn’t. Someone needs to clue her in—she’s only off by over a hundred years. But that someone is surely not co-host Joy Behar.
Today she confessed that ‘I am not really a scholar. I don’t know anything.’ She got that right.
To appreciate O’Donnell ridiculing the Eucharist, you’d have to see it. But that might make you sick.
So just read what she said: ‘The biggest thing when you are raised a Catholic when I was a kid was that you are not allowed to touch the Host with your hand.’ After Behar chimed in with ‘Or chew the Host,’ O’Donnell exclaimed, ‘Or your teeth. So you would put it, would get stuck to the roof of your mouth and you would spend the rest of church going [she mimics her tongue hitting the top of her mouth].’ O’Donnell later says something about letting Jesus rest in peace because ‘You can’t get a Q-tip and swab the inside of his cheek.’
After taking some liberties with Catholicism, Behar lets the audience know that when it comes to anti-Semitism, she will have none of it.
She admitted that she would not vote for Mitt Romney and that’s because he announced his bid for the presidency in front of the Ford building. Ford, she said, was ‘a big, big, Hitler supporter.’ This is a claim that not even those who charge Ford with being an anti-Semite make. Leaving Ford aside, it’s nice to know that these ex-Catholic ladies have little tolerance for anti-Semitism.
Now if only they thought of Catholics as if they were Jews.
Anti-Catholicism is OK, but Anti-Semitism is not?
(And I'm not advocating anti-Semitism!)
You know as well as I do that anti-Catholicism is the only acceptable form of bigotry in today's brave, new world.
I think we should all FReep the show and let them know how misled they are.
Maybe if the NT didn't contain anti-Jewishness on its pages you'd have some credibility.
I always thought Joy Behar was Jewish!!
Sure, just ask the critics of The Passion.
Maybe if Christ's own people didn't hand Him over to Pilate things would be different...
It had to happen. God used the abuse of their free will to perform the greatest act in the history of the universe.
So say some spurious anti-semetic writings.
Your choice of name suits you well.
Well, thou surely knowest thyself.
Ah, that wasn't till the end of the story. Before that one would scarcely realize the place was crawling with Romans. At least the Jews were in their own country.
I'm Catholic and anti-Catholicism bothers me much less that indifference.
We must be doing something right.
;-)
http://www.forward.com/articles/scripting-the-scriptures/
"Yet authoritative Jewish sources teach that Jesus died at least partly thanks to decisions taken by his fellow Jews. That fact used to be covered up by our communal leaders lest antisemites discover and publicize it. But the discovery has already happened, as a quick Internet search will reveal. So why keep fooling ourselves?
Maimonides says it unapologetically in his “Letter to Yemen”: “Jesus of Nazareth… impelled people to believe that he was a prophet sent by God to clarify perplexities in the Torah, and that he was the Messiah that was predicted by each and every seer. He interpreted the Torah and its precepts in such a fashion as to lead to their total annulment, to the abolition of all its commandments and to the violation of its prohibitions. The sages, of blessed memory, having become aware of his plans before his reputation spread among our people, meted out fitting punishment to him.”"
"n this passage, Maimonides draws on the Talmud and the Tosefta, another ancient rabbinic text. One key talmudic passage, from tractate Sanhedrin (43a), was expunged by censors but preserved in manuscripts and is well known today:
“On the eve of Passover they hung Jesus of Nazareth. The herald had gone forth forty days before [his death], (crying): ‘Jesus of Nazareth goes forth to be stoned, because he has practiced magic and deceived and led astray Israel. Anyone who knows anything in his favor should come and declare concerning him.’ But they found nothing in his favor.”"
I've been a Catholic all my life, and I never heard or was taught to be anti-Jewish. I'm not saying that this was the case elsewhere, but it is a fallacy to implicate the entire church as anti-semitic. Such a notion is foreign to me. Also, I personally do not see specific anti-semitic instances in the NT.
The fact that Jesus was handed over to the High Priests does not convict the entire Jewish people. It simply means that Jesus was a Jew, he lived and preached in Judea and Galilee, and he died there too. So, naturally the persons he dealt with were Jewish, both the good and the bad - not any different than any other population of people, IMHO.
There you go, inserting rationality into a discussion...we can't have that in the Religion forum!!!! :P
Which they got by slaughtering the Canaanites who thought it was their country until the jews showed up out of the wilderness. God works in mysterious ways and the Romans were just as much part of his plan as the jews were.
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