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To: Petrosius
Have read history, not just one version of it either. Quite a few jews were burned at the stake for not converting. And not just one time, there was two other great pograms, one in Poland and then of course Hitler.

Did you know that the Nazi guards wore belt buckles with in god we trust on them? Sang Christmas carols outside the gas chambers as they gassed jews and threw christmas wreaths on the piles of the dead? Yeah it was a ploy to build a divide between the Jews and Christians by the enemy, and it worked.

You also should understand the difference between Eastern and Western Christianity. The Orthodox sects such as Syrian Orthodox, Greek Orthodox and the Lebanese Marointes tend to be very anti-semetic and pro-palestinian. It is only the recent years when the Jews experienced a new flavor of Christianity that actually loves them via tourism, that some of their eyes were opened to the fact that not all Christians are alike.

But then, on the Christian side, the same thing is true. Christians tend to think of Jews as this homogeneous group of people, when, just like Christianity they come in all flavors. The ultra-orthodox flavor tends to be a sour one. But on the other hand, the Sheersonite sect of Hasidim happen to be, well, pretty darn cool. They, to the untrained eye, are identical on the street. The spitters and the lovers. It is their actions that set them apart rather than the title "Ultra-Orthodox".

I had a conversation one day on Ben Yehuda street in Jerusalem, where the Jewish guy I was chatting with and I discovered this difference between us, and he said to me that if I would promise to not think of all Jews as alike, he would promise to not think of all Christians as Catholics. We both made a friend that day.

Jews tend to be pragmatic, comes from 2000 years of persecution. Your actions speak louder than your words to them. So when you say you are a Christian and make rude comments like "Read some history." for openers, you lost your credibility right there.

You know, the old, “they shall know you by your love line”? Its true! They shall also know you by your lack thereof naturally.

38 posted on 11/05/2011 9:08:24 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: American in Israel
he would promise to not think of all Christians as Catholics

Pretty funny line, considering that Pope Pius XII saved 860,000 Jewish lives -- according to a Israeli Jewish rabbi & diplomat, Pinchas Lapide.

BTW, the Spanish Inquisition, which had no authority over any Jews but only Catholics, had a total death toll under 10,000, over 300 years.

42 posted on 11/05/2011 3:14:43 PM PDT by Campion ("It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins." -- Franklin)
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To: American in Israel
Oh, BTW: the German belt buckles said "Gott mit Uns" (God with us), and the motto dated from the Prussian army, not only before the Nazi era, but before Germany per se even existed.

Prussia, BTW, was an ardently Lutheran kingdom, not Catholic at all.

43 posted on 11/05/2011 3:16:47 PM PDT by Campion ("It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins." -- Franklin)
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To: American in Israel
Quite a few jews were burned at the stake for not converting. And not just one time, there was two other great pograms, one in Poland and then of course Hitler.

Notice that I prefaced my remark that with the assumption that your statement that Jews were "burned at the stake for remaining Jews rather than convert to Catholics" referred to the Inquisition, the usual boogeyman for these charges. I will have to admit to ignorance of any such actions in Poland. I would appreciate any documentation that you could offer that it in fact did occur.

As for the actions of Hitler and the Nazi's, they were neo-pagans, not Catholics. It is nothing less than a blood libel to attribute their actions to the Catholic Church. Likewise, Eastern Orthodox are not Catholics.

78 posted on 11/06/2011 11:31:20 AM PST by Petrosius
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