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Gerald Harp wrote:
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> -Caveat Lector-
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> In a message dated 1/4/99 9:44:43 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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> > This is dated thinking. It applied a generation ago. The legend of
> > chosenness is part of the Jewish national myth. It applies to those
> > who
> > have converted as well. There is no problem here except that
> > Christians
> > can't usurp that title while Jews continue to exist.
>
> IMO this is not quite it. It is true that we Christians have totally usurped
> the scriptures and beliefs of the Jewish/Hebrew people up to the time of
> Christ. But i think it gets kind of complex. It has been said of Hitler that
> that he especially resented the Jews because while Hr, Hitler, babbled about
> the natural superiority of the Aryan race, he realized that the difference was
> that the Jews really did believe in their own superiority by virtue of being
> the Chosen People. This is not it either though it is an interesting theory.
>
> I think that it is a matter of some naive but determined Christians thinking
> that since theirs is the true religion and is built upon Judaism, it is right
> and natural for the Jews to be converted. They are thwarted and shocked when,
> after the Christian faith has been explained, the Jews still do not convert.
> The surprise quickly turns to anger. Martin Luther strongly believed that the
> Jews simply had not had the Faith explained to them properly but he, Luther,
> would do it right. Again, disappointment. Luther became one of many anti-
> Semitic Christians, adding more coals to the Holocaust to come.
>
> Jerry
The problem for believing Christians is quite severe. How can the Jews
be
god's chosen people as stated in the bible AND NOT BELIEVE IN ( JESUS
) GOD?
We are not even talking about the idea that Christians have replaced
Jews
in their addendum to the real bible, the so called New Testament. We
are only
talking about claim of the still existing Jews that despite the
inventions of
the Christians, nothing has really changed. A modern day Jew has a
much stronger
claim to the " chosenness " myth than does a Guatemalan Catholic
Indian.
The only thing left to do is to find a way of cutting off modern Jews
from
their cultural ( and genetic ) history. The 13th Tribe story was the
perfect
tool for this. Except that it's main premise that modern Jews are
really not
Jews is completely wrong. But this has never stopped Christians before
and
won't stop the really desperate now.
Joshua2
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