While there is no excuse for the wicked, I cannot help but think that "chr*stian identity" and other forms of crypto-henotheism would not be so tempting to so many people if the image of the Jewish People hadn't been turned completely inside-out and upside-down by Jewish liberals. Instead of the Chosen People whose every thought was G-d-intoxicated in the TaNa"KH the world sees a people apparently chosen to fight against G-d and violate the Torah, and these attitudes are not touted as a rebellion against Judaism but as its very essence. I refer not to hostility to explicit public manifestations of chr*stianity but to religion itself. In the name of "Judaism" the Book of Genesis and the Ten Commandments are attacked. Even the catastrophe of sixty-odd years ago has been made into a twisted "passion play" in which the Jewish People are "crucified" by religion so that it may be abolished and replaced with a purely secular-based moral/ethical system--essentially "redeeming" the human race from religion by their "death, burial, and resurrection." This, incidentally, is why Holocaust-denial is being criminalized--because the Holocaust has become the foundation of morality (Sinai being a "myth"). No Holocaust, no basis of morality. Meanwhile every secular "Biblical studies" department in the country teaches that Israel was never in Egypt, that the Exodus is an utter falsification, and no one objects (unless it is Fundamentalist chr*stians).
Again, I'm not absolving the anti-Semites of their guilt (G-d forbid!). But at least the anti-Semites of past ages hated authentic Judaism (I'm unaware of anyone charging the Jews of Medieval Spain with "making dirty movies"). Today's anti-Semites point to a "Judaism" that is an utter negation of what it's really supposed to be, and the ultimate resposibility must lie not on the liberals but on the Gedolei-HaDor, the genuine Rulers of Israel. Where are they? Where are their voices?
As a Noachide it is not so much anti-Semitism that scandalizes me (good will always provoke the opposition of evil) but utter depravity and decadence presented to the world as "Semitism" with no dissenting voices.
It is because I am a Noachide rather than a chr*stian that this so bothers me. Were I a chr*stian I could smugly attribute this situation to Israel's "rejection of its messiah" (G-d forbid!). But as a Noachide I hold the Jewish People to extremely high standards and I have no excuses to offer.
I am (nominally) a Christian*- with two nieces and three grandchildren who are Jewish-and,as you might imagine, I worry about their future in an increasingly hostile world.
I wouldn’t recognize a crypto-henotheist if I fell over one,but am reasonably sure Jesus of Nazareth was NOT a blue-eyed,brown-haired Nordic lad, and do NOT believe present day Jews are “really Kazakhs” (sp?).
* I attend my late wife’s church when the spirit moves me-which is less and less these days.It is sometimes a comfort to do so.