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orichalcum) wrote2008-09-03 02:53 pm
orichalcum) wrote2008-09-03 02:53 pm
Does this strike anyone else as bizarre?
So, one of the newest and latest Palin controversies is that she attended a sermon at her church two weeks ago given by the founder of Jews for Jesus.
That's not the weird part, from my perspective.
Abraham Foxman, the president of the Anti-Defamation League, is on record in the article defending her and Jews for Jesus on the grounds that, "Protestant evangelizing to Jews was entirely different from Catholics praying for Jewish conversion, which the ADL has sharply criticized. They did not have the Inquisition. They did not go on a Crusade. They did not kill Jews for 2,000 years,” Foxman said. “They have a belief; they’re entitled to their belief.”
Now, I don't like denouncing my own denomination, but I'm a historian. Protestants couldn't have killed Jews for 2000 years, or gone on a Crusade, because _they've only been around for 500 years._" (And what does the Crusade have to do with anti-Semitism, in any case?)
And during those 500 years, well, a lot of Protestants attacked and killed a lot of Jewish people, just as Catholics and Russian Orthodox worshipers and all sorts of other people. Various Protestant churches have publicly repented for this, rightly so, but so has the Catholic Church. If you're going to get upset at people evangelizing your congregants because of their religion's past history, making an exemption for Protestants seems pretty darn hypocritical.
That's not the weird part, from my perspective.
Abraham Foxman, the president of the Anti-Defamation League, is on record in the article defending her and Jews for Jesus on the grounds that, "Protestant evangelizing to Jews was entirely different from Catholics praying for Jewish conversion, which the ADL has sharply criticized. They did not have the Inquisition. They did not go on a Crusade. They did not kill Jews for 2,000 years,” Foxman said. “They have a belief; they’re entitled to their belief.”
Now, I don't like denouncing my own denomination, but I'm a historian. Protestants couldn't have killed Jews for 2000 years, or gone on a Crusade, because _they've only been around for 500 years._" (And what does the Crusade have to do with anti-Semitism, in any case?)
And during those 500 years, well, a lot of Protestants attacked and killed a lot of Jewish people, just as Catholics and Russian Orthodox worshipers and all sorts of other people. Various Protestant churches have publicly repented for this, rightly so, but so has the Catholic Church. If you're going to get upset at people evangelizing your congregants because of their religion's past history, making an exemption for Protestants seems pretty darn hypocritical.