Saturday, April 06, 2019
Christianity and anti-Semitism
There are, unfortunately forms of anti-Semitism that Christians have engaged in. Hitler's version of anti-Semitism, however, is really incompatible with Christianity, because it said that what is wrong with Jews is not their religious choices (failure to accept their own Messiah), but rather what is wrong with them is their race. That is the race that produced Jesus, Paul, and all 12 apostles. In other words, one of that racial group is God Incarnate, according to Christianity. Why any Christian would support Hitler is beyond me (though, I am sorry to say, many did).
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To be brutally honest, anti-Semitism appears to be baked into the DNA of Mankind as a whole. Why this should be so is subject to interpretation, but there is no justification to deny the near universality of the phenomenon. Many Christians throughout history have (ironically, since Jesus is a Jew) been anti-Semitic. So have many Muslims, especially today. Anti-Semitism is rampant amongst contemporary European secularists, especially in post-Christian Britain. The New Atheist movement is soaked in anti-Jewish attitudes. Much of liberal anti-Israel sentiment is but thinly disguised anti-Semitism. Non-Jewish states are carrying out at this very moment far more horrifying policies that those of Israel with nary a whisper of condemnation from those castigating Israel.
My own suspicion is rather Freudian in nature. Perhaps anti-Semitism results from a primordial male fear of castration, and a consequent abhorrence of circumcision.
I think it's more related to tribalism.
Jews have historically successfully avoided assimilation after being dispersed. This makes them stand out where they are in the minority and perhaps adds to suspicions that they have their own agenda. It seems that was the reason in Germany as Victor pointed out and somewhat here in the US also.
Liberalism lately seems to want to condemn any group that doesn't want to assimilate into liberalism's vision of globalism. So Israel's insistence on maintaining it's own identity and borders are a cause of condemnation from the left.
But honestly, discrimination against other cultures is not just a Western phenomenon. Eastern cultures without Jews have other cultures near to them that they look down on.
"Liberalism lately seems to want to condemn any group that doesn't want to assimilate into liberalism's vision of globalism. So Israel's insistence on maintaining it's own identity and borders are a cause of condemnation from the left."
where do you see that?
Arabs are Semites the Arabic congresswoman who was anti Israel is not anti semetic she si semetic.
So have many Muslims, especially today. Anti-Semitism is rampant amongst contemporary European secularists, especially in post-Christian Britain
most Muslims are Semitic, I think people are confusing anti Jewish with anti Semitic,
"most Muslims are Semitic, I think people are confusing anti Jewish with anti Semitic"
No confusion, Joe. It's common usage. No one equates anti-Semitism with "anti-Arab", but everyone uses it as meaning "anti-Jewish". It is correct usage to use the two terms interchangeably.
bmiller said...
Liberalism lately seems to want to condemn any group that doesn't want to assimilate into liberalism's vision of globalism. So Israel's insistence on maintaining it's own identity and borders are a cause of condemnation from the left.
Really? You think it has little to do with Israel insistence on denying Palestinians their own government, with appropriating their land for Israeli settlements, with using the military to put down civilian protests? If the Palestinians were Christians, you would call them freedom fighters, much as the Israeli terrorists were considered in the early 1940s.
Starhopper said...
"most Muslims are Semitic, I think people are confusing anti Jewish with anti Semitic"
No confusion, Joe. It's common usage. No one equates anti-Semitism with "anti-Arab", but everyone uses it as meaning "anti-Jewish". It is correct usage to use the two terms interchangeably.
April 08, 2019 4:46 AM
I agree but not in the case of arab's anti-Israel arguments
Metacrock's blog
my essay on love as the basis of ethics
I would like to know how many of those pro Nazi Christians still admitted it after the war?And what difference would have made to them i they had known about the camps up front?
Of course nazi-christians simply maintained that Jesus was not a jew. They were not the only christians who maintained this in the 19th and early 20th Century. So if you can't understand why christians had no problem you are basically ignorant regarding 19th and early 20th Century theological, historical and pseudoscientific thinking.
Of course this line of thinking was not typical for christians. Martin Bormann was an atheist. And that makes the discussion whether Hitler was a christian almost entirely irrelevant.
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