[xzins]

I pray for the day when Christianity jettisons the last remnants of its 4th Century anti-Semitism and says, "Just as American Christians can remain culturally American, and Japanese Christians can remain culturally Japanese, and Nigerian Christians can remain culturally Nigerian, Jewish disciples of the Jewish Messiah can and must remain Jewish."

I already believe that, and to be honest with you, I can't think of a moment in my adult life when I didn't believe that.

[Buggman]

I know, and it's getting a lot better, particularly among Evangelical churches. While I included you in the ping, I wasn't including you in the rebuke.

Nevertheless, it continues to break my heart when I go in to speak to a church and someone inevitably comes up to me and says, "Hey, my mother's Jewish," or "My grandmother's Jewish."

Despite all the progress that has been made, that just goes to show that in the end, even philo-Judaic churches put into their heads, "You're no longer a Jew--you're a Christian (read: Gentile) like us now."

I keep getting asked, "Why don't more Jews believe in Jesus?"

Answer: "Because you keep turning the ones that do into Gentiles. And you do it without even intending to, without even thinking about it. And that's why I don't want any Jew ever to become a Christian."

Shalom.