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From: de@moscom.UUCP (Dave Esan)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: Jews and Christians
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Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 13:36:55 EST
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> I admit that I have never been a minority and that I do not know very
> much about Jewish history.  But do you really believe that all
> Christians wish to anniliate Jews?  Yes, Christians desire to "convert" or
> spread the Good News, so to speak.  But it can't be by force.  Jesus sure
> didn't teach that.

Obviously, you know very little about Jewish history.  So why try to argue
on a subject you know nothing about????  Christians have been persecuting
Jews for centuries.  The Crusaders used to kill Jews along the way for 
sport or if they got bored.  Jews had to wear distinctive clothing, and
live in tiny areas, named after the first, a section of Rome.  Where do
you think ghetto came from -- Harlem????  Jews were denied most professions,
but were allowed to be moneylenders, until the nobles got too far into
debt and expelled them.  Go back and read your history.  I can't write it
all here.  
> I think their may be a little reverse prejudice toward Christians.
Reverse prejudice!!!!!  It's merely the racial memory of persecution,
humiliation, and death.

> p.s.  Why do Jews have freedom to try eastern religions and various
>       other things but are banned from Jesus?

Where, praytell, did you get this tidbit??  Jews can do what they want.
They will be considered an apostate if they become Christian or if
they are Hare Krishna.  The great distaste for a Jew who converts to
Christianity has to do with the relations between the two religions
over the last 1900 years.


Don't you think this discussion should continue on net.religion.  I 
do not care about what Paul did or thought.  He too was an apostate.
As a matter of record his group was called "malshinim", and the Talmud
suggests that it is better to be eaten by snakes than to go into their
home.

Go now and learn, and then come back and talk like an intelligent person.

				David Esan (moscom!de)