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Hatred toward Jews because they are Jews is as bad as Jews hating Christians because they are Christian. Spare me the selective outrage!
True followers of Jesus are not anti-Israel and love the Jews just as Jesus always loved the Jews. Many of today’s mainline churches are not really followers of Jesus and have gone astray. I am a Christian, but I no longer go to the Lutheran Church. It has changed.
As if many Jews don’t harbor anti-Christian views. Jews are neither innocents nor altruistic.
My impression, someone correct me if i’m wrong, is that the major dynamic of new christian antisemitism is that it is being driven by secularized pseudo-christian liberal and leftwing organizations like TEC and ELCA and UCC, christians in name only. To try to tie today’s politicized anti-Jewish ideology to historical antecedents is, I believe, barking up the wrong tree. I can understand why Jewish commentators might take this approach, but I think they are missing the boat if they do.
I believe it is no accident that left leaning “Christian” thinkers and publication are also anti-semitic.
“Martin Luther was particularly anti-Semitic. His writings were precursors of twentieth-century National Socialist texts...”
Luther is an interesting case. In his early writings, he was actually quite philo-semitic. He had this very unrealistic expectation, though, that once his de-Romanized version of Christianity was presented to Jews, they’d eagerly convert en masse. He was bitterly disappointed when they didn’t follow through... hence the virulent anti-semitism of the later writings. In hindsight, you think, how could he have possibly thought that, well, they’ve held out for what, 1500 years, but *he* was the guy to convince them? Very hubristic little friar, that ML.