> I think Christians need to face up to this and not try to argue it > away or pretend it didn't happen or deny their responsibility for > two millennia of violence.
I am a Christian and I am definitely not responsible for two millennia of violence.
> Because, whatever Christians may think of their religion as being > a religion of love and peace, to Jews it's a religion of hatred > and murder.
Are you saying that Jews (All Jews? Perhaps not.) conflate Christianity (the system of beliefs based on the life, death and resurrection of Jesus) with the people who profess that faith.
Christians come with the same variety as Jews. Some of us are really fine people who seek to live as Jesus taught and demonstrated. Some of us are really rotten people who think that our faith is an excuse to condemn others. Please use whatever influence you may have among your Jewish friends to debunk the myth that all Christians are Jew-haters.
We are not.
I really hate stereotypes. I spend more time than I'd like explaining that I am a Christian, but not the vile stereotype of a condemning "God Said It, I Believe It, That Settles It" cardboard cut-out.
And yes, I know, it's as wrong for Jews to blame all Christians for the violence as it is for Christians to blame all Jews for the death of Jesus.
Agreed. Much mistrust and violence begins with the need to assign blame.
> But when you're a tiny helpless minority being persecuted and hunted > down and burned alive in synagogues and forced to convert, it's not > easy to be fair.
Which makes the words of one famous Jew all the more impressive: "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do."
Dave
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