To: Alouette
Can't any of these people think? The ones that accuse The Passion of exciting 'anti-Semitism'. Since when have American Christians --- in more than two hundred years --- rushed out and gone howling through the streets of a 'Jewish quarter' (there aren't any in America) burning and killing?
Never!
Not even during the Great Awakening, the evangelical fervor of pre-Civil War times.
Are they nuts? Do they know nothing of American history?
Never mind, sorry I asked.
8 posted on
02/28/2004 9:24:04 PM PST by
squarebarb
('The stars put out their pale opinions, one by one...' Thomas Merton)
To: squarebarb
>>Since when have American Christians --- in more than two hundred years --- rushed out and gone howling through the streets of a 'Jewish quarter' (there aren't any in America) burning and killing? >>
Well, there was that riot in Crown Heights, NY, but they weren't right wing Christians.
To be fair, it was common in 19th century, for Russian priests to lead attacks on Jews around Easter time. Some don't realize that that was a different place and time.
Now the only religious group interested in killing Jews are the Islamic fundamentalists.
39 posted on
02/28/2004 10:49:43 PM PST by
PatL
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