Frankly, I doubt they would even know what you are talking about. I didn't. We don't talk about such things in Church. We are not obsessed with anything, that I am aware of, except maybe showing reverence to God during our services. Well in my case I will declare that I am possibly obsessed with reading and debating God's Word, and maybe gardening.
>>>I find it rather shocking that you would blame international Jewish big-shots for turning the entire German nation against the Jews. That is classic antisemitism, where did you learn that?<<<
That is called Classic History and Classic Truth that has been brushed under the rug and kept there by the threat of receiving the anti-semite label in our nation, and the threat of imprisonment in some other nations. Talk about a Pharisaic stranglehold! How is that different from stoning the early Christians for the false charge of blasphemy? And imprisonment for speech? I am astonished Christian nations have fallen this far in my lifetime.
When you attempt to use that smear on me, I label it Classic Anti-Christian Bigotry, which puts you in the same league as those darlings of freedom: the American Civil Liberties Union and the Anti-Defamation League, whose deceitful titles hide the fact that they are primarily interested in destroying Christianity; but under the cloak of fighting anti-semitism.
You obviously don't have a clue about what happened in Germany, other than what you have been spoon-fed by the Anti-Christian Bigots. Untermyer organized the boycott against the best wishes of the American Jewish Committee who tried to explain to that arrogant old fool that things were highly sensitive. But he pushed the boycott along, anyway: and he was a lawyer with a lot of money and influence. He was no different than the arrogant, power-hungry fools that are destroying our nation, and other nations, today. You will never convince them they are not right, because the "know" they are.
This was the title of the New York Times article on Untermyer's arrogance (my bold and underline):
UNTERMYER SEES HITLER'S END SOON; Effective Boycott Can Upset Regime Within a Year, He Says at Youngstown. HE IS CRITICAL OF ZIONISTS. Prague Negotiations Harmful, He Asserts in Talk to B'nai Brith Lodges. THE NEW YORK TIMES; August 28, 1933
He certainly showed Hitler who was boss, didn't he? Talk about head-in-the sand arrogance!
That article, by the way, came directly from the New York Times archive; not from some lunatic fringe website.
From what I understand, at that time a good chunk of the German people did not hate the Jews; and I don’t' believe there was any general persecution of Jews. I seem to recall they could all have left if they wanted to; and many did. There were some round-ups and possible persecutions and/or imprisonments of the German communists (the Bolshevik Jews) who showed allegiance to Stalin; but that would be treason in any country, even today. But by the time Untermyer and the lunatic fringe that followed were finished, the Germans were almost universally behind Hitler, and against the Jews.
You are quick to smear, but you know it won't work with me. I will throw it back in your face every time. I know that you ignore God's instruction that Christians be no respecter of persons. In fact, I have never read anything you have written about how much you love whites, blacks, Hispanics, Indians, Chinese, Christians generally, or anyone else, but Jews.
Yet I'm a Jew, and you seem to despise me. Do you despise me because I am not in love with Jews as an individual race, but only as members of the human race, like God instructs? If I single them out as special, I show respect of persons and therefore deny God. Are you trying to brow-beat me into denying God?
I will, however single out Christians as special. But that is another matter altogether.
>>>Satan turned most of the German nation against the Jews and they followed him with fervor.<<<
Satan, huh? So you believe Moses was a false prophet? Why do I get the feeling you despise the prophesies of Moses?
To everyone else, Moses said Israel (as a nation) would be cursed if they did not follow God's commandments and statutes; and Moses said they would be destroyed as individuals if they did not hear Jesus Christ. It doesn't get much clearer than that. Yet, some on this forum believe that God will give them a pass because they are "his chosen people."
I tell you the truth when I say they are no longer God's chosen people, and have not been since the days of Christ: maybe even since the days they were carried away into Babylon! Recall that God at one time destroyed nations before them when the entered the promised land. Then, less than a thousand years later, he turned on them and sent other nations to destroy and enslave them! Why? Because they broke God's covenant with them one too many times.
No matter what you have heard, God will not restore Jerusalem to its former estate until he restores Sodom and Samaria to their former estates (Ezekiel 16:55.) And that will not happen.
>>>I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you. And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? . . . <<<
I had asked you why you love Jews; that is, why you single them out?” And your response is that? Quoting a bunch of scripture cannot explain why you continue to show respect of persons, against the teaching of God's Word.
We are all one blood, friends (Acts 17:26.) Don't believe anyone who tries to divide us.
Philip
No. The words you write are a self-evidently anti-semitic. One rarely sees such vitriol directed against the Jews on Free Republic. That you blame the Jews for the Holocaust is inexcusable. I have finished with you. You missed the point of John 9 completely.