Re: Why was Jesus crucified?

saint7peter@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:

> On May 13, 7:28 pm, Robert Epstein <vze25...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>>Do you see that as the reason for so much prejudice against the Jews?  I
>>still think it is connected to the old myths about Jews killing Christ
>>and being demonic according to the old Church.
>>
>>Robert
> 
> 
> If it is due to a myth, it is due to the very myth that your ancestors
> created, namely the Torah and the God thereof.  When you learn how to
> read, try reading it.
> 
> 

Well, Lee, there is a difference between the bad stuff in the Bible, and 
people being prejudiced along racial lines for other reasons.  I don't 
think the two are directly connected, nor does one justify the other.  I 
personally do not approve of the violence of the Old Testament God - it 
is an artifact of another time and place, and a place that is clearly 
still violent not only for Jews but for all regional groups.  I don't 
think the prejudice against cultural Jews has anything much to do with 
the Jewish Bible at this point.  It has a lot more to do with the myths 
perpetuated and continued by the early Church.  But even that is remote, 
compared to the prejudice that people carry willfully at this point for 
various groups, Jews included.

Certainly to justify the prejudice against Jews because of the content 
of the Bible is a badly displaced sort of logic.  I have read enough to 
understand what that content is about, there is both good and bad, but 
you seem vehemently prejudiced against the Jewish tradition yourself in 
the comment above, and appear to justify the prejudice.

Robert

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