Fistful, the Constitution Party's emphasis on Christianity as the bedrock for running a government is alarming for a Jew who understands history. And no what what the speaker wants you to hear, "Judeo-Christian Values" is code for "Christian Values"; you'll never hear those words spoken by a Jew.
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AntiBubba,
I am a Jew who well understands this history. Some of that history is, for me, personal. As a kid coming home from school I had, periodically, to map out my route as does a military scouting party. So that I could make it home without encountering the "Frenchies" (this was Montreal, Quebec, Canada), Christians who when they caught me would punch me out while they called me "moodzie Juif". That's French for "dirty Jew".
Of course at that age I knew nothing about the forty or so members of my family who were exterminated in Poland and Russia. By Christians who committed the atrocities, or who eagerly aided and abetted, or who looked the other way.
I won't go into prior history.
Most of my Christian friends become quite uncomfortable should the discussion come around to past relations between Christians and Jews.
I will never forget and I well know it can happen again.
And yet I now use the phrase "Judeo-Christian".
Years ago I noticed that my voting pattern closely matched that of believing Christians. Pretty much their values are my values.
Jews, like everyone else, have a tendency to live in the past -- instead of the here and now.
Here and now, in America, anti-semitism is found mainly among left-liberal Christians (and of course, Muslims). They advocate for dis-investment in Israel, consider the poor Palestinians as the victims of the Fascist Israelis and so on.
But a striking feature of such Christians is that they don't really believe in Christ.
Like left-liberal Jews their religion is, more or less, socialism and they are dedicated to social activism. Almost always on the wrong side.
I have found that Evangelical and Charismatic Christians usually are the friends of Jews. And as far as Israel goes, they are usually better friends and supporters than are liberal-left Jews. And MUCH smarter in their understanding of what is necessary for Israel's survival. When the 2nd intifada began in 2000 and tourism, including that of Jews, dried up, these Christians kept coming to Israel -- to show their love and support and to spend their money to support Israel.
There are Christian organizations who collect funds in order to promote aliya (Jews from the diaspora moving to Israel). One such Christian organization has actually purchased a ship to use for this purpose.
Do such Christians want to convert Jews? Or is their concern connected to their interest in the Rapture? For some Christians the answer is yes to both.
So what?
Only Jews so assimilated that they are ignorant of who they really are and what Judaism actually is -- only such Jews are vulnerable. Whose responsibility is that?
So it is important to live in the here and now. And here and now it is NOT Christians who threaten Jews. At least it is not American Christians.
While liberal-left (and too many other) Jews are suspicious of Christians, they get all excited about any possible discrimination or persecution against Muslims. While attacking Christianity, they rush to defend Muslims.
For a brilliant people who win all those Nobel prizes -- the people of the book -- how stupid can they get?
At least ten percent, some say over thirty percent of Muslims are Islamofascists.
Those percentages are multiplied by 1.2 billion Muslims in the world! Do the math.
They hate and want to kill all infidels -- Americans, Israelis and especially, JEWS.
Hatred of America and Israel and of individual Jews is preached every Friday night in a very large percentage of Mosques.
American Muslims have already been apprehended with weapons and plans to attack Jewish institutions including Synagogues.
I have read that groups among American (and English and French and so on) Muslims are engaged in collecting addresses and information on ALL Jews.
Islam is once more on the March.
Do you know your history? How about the history of the Islamic conquest of much of Europe and the world?
They themselves say, "First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people."
And yet these Jews fear Christians, our natural allies, and are SO CONCERNED for Muslim rights.
As a kid, when accused of killing Christ, I would tell these idiots to bug off -- "I wasn't there and I didn't do it."
How about surfacing and living in the here and now? American believing Christians -" they weren't there and they didn't do it."
By the way, AntiBubba, what exactly is wrong with Christian values?
matis