MrAcheson
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Who killed Christ?
We did. I did.
Amen.
Vatican II also proclaimed that Protestants are not heretics, but "mistaken brothers" or something like that. It may seem like nothing, but if you were a Protestant living in Latin America it was very very important because suddenly your neighbors were allowed to talk to you.
On the anti-semitism front, the Jews have a right to be worried. Thanks to Israel's position in the War on Terror, anti-semitism is on the rise on the left, in circles that were its staunchest adversaries. A lot of Jews, especially liberal Jews, feel very vulnerable right now because they look around and find their gentile "friends" turning against them.
And now the Passion of Christ comes along and they feel more threatened since the movie places (legitimately) the blame for Christ's death at the feet of the people the Jews recognize as the founders of Rabbinical Judaism. (The Pharisees and Sadduccees wrote the Talmud.) Frankly most Jews don't know much more about Jesus than what their Rabbi tells them. Most Rabbis say something like "Good man, killed by Romans, not for us."
I pray to God that he would move in the hearts of true Christians to defend the Jews and reach out in love to their Jewish neighbors. God is giving us this troubled time as an opportunity to do what is right. I pray that he will redeem this and bring Christians and Jews together in a way not seen for millenia.