What is so bad about jewish people and why do people hate them?
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Anyways, all of that caused a spark of ignorant bullshit that people would spat about Jewish people. All of it has to do really with religious wars, sad but true.
There are several factors underlying anti semitism, or hatred of Jews. Firstly, sadly the Xian bible says some rather nasty and untrue things about us; it claims we 'killed jesus' even though almost all modern theologians acknowledge that it was the ROMANS alone that did that.
But the unfair charge of 'deicide' against Jews has claimed the lives of countless Jews down through the ages.
There is also the factor that we are a tiny minority. Many people can go their entire lives and never meet a Jewish person. So they tend to believe the stereotypes, many of which are, again, UNtrue and negative.
Anti semitism is a complex prejudice; enduring over time and mutating, rather like a virus, according to which country it is in. For an excellent article on it, I recommend going to http://www.simpletoremember.com
Also: http://www.ajewwithaview.com
Again THANK YOU for your friendship and this question :)
The replacement theology of Christianity was originally intended to be a way to eliminate the Jewish people. Understanding this will help to make sense of the various waves of antisemitism and persecution since then. It goes in cycles but the underlying justification for the past 2000 years plus..has been based on eliminating the Jew justified by their righteous belief that they are placating God for the Jew's refusal to abandon Judaism and adopt their "New" Testament.
Consider the non-Jewish world at that time:
All of the polytheistic believers were somewhat "used" to their political leaders telling them what gods were to be venerated during their rule and which deity their ruler was representative of in human form. Adding a new deity or giving a new name to an ancient deity whose belief was already established was not that big a deal for most of the Gentile population. Tanakh recorded that any time such a practice of a Jewish king telling the Jews that they were to worship a foreign deity...the entire Jewish people suffered..and often at the very hands of the people whose deity they had left God to serve. That lesson is told right in our Jewish Bible, the same one the Christians have as an adaptation of their Old Testament, yet they rarely see this in the story because their New Testament also imposes topsy-turvy meaning to the context of the stories in so many places.Christians did not want their flock to know the Paschal lamb represented a false man-god of Egypt, so they changed it into a sacrifice for sin to justify human sacrifice (or deicide depending on whether or not they are calling Jesus God in human form). Rather than his blood expiating sin, the blood on the door was an act of defiance showing the Egyptians that the life force (blood) representing their deity was spilled by the Hebrew slaves and their god was powerless over the God of Israel to do a thing about it. It was an act of rejection of the gods of Egypt and alliance to the God of Israel, and that s in the Torah in Exodus in context. Rather than show that Isaiah was slamming a man for calling himself a man/god, Christian dogma personifies and makes a proper name for their Latin translations word for star and turns that story into something about a fall of angels (no where mentioned in that narrative at ALL) and justifies creating of the "name" Lucifer for a demi-god of the underworld Devil. (That isn t in the Tanakh but fits the underworld described in Plato s narrative recalling the ancient the Myth of Er) Every aspect of Jewish belief is given a new spin. Things that I once thought must have been fabricated outright I later discovered were beliefs of the ancient Greeks and Romans. This was the longstanding battle for souls going on..the Hellenized Jews, those who had become apostate to Judaism, desired to entice other Jews to worship as the Greeks that they believed superior in philosophy and knowledge, so they created texts that tried to say..see this is what it was supposed to have been all along. However, reality was that those beliefs were identical to the beliefs and practices that the Torah demonized (Baal, Tammuz and Mithras worship and customs play most frequently)
Once one begins an in-depth study of the religious practices and beliefs of all the peoples surrounding the Jews in the centuries just preceding the beginning of Christianity, one can see these developments take place. It was a concerted effort to do away with Israel and Judaism.
When Hadrian renamed Judea, Palestina, a Latinized version of the name of the Philistines, it was only done to insult the Jews and eliminate the history of Jewish presence. The Philistines had long since completely assimilated into the surrounding peoples, and the only vestiges of those ancient Agean seafaring people that the Hellenized Romans wished to claim as ancestors were artifacts and place names by the year 135CE when Hadrian changed the name of Judea.
If you are indoctrinated to believe that Jews are blinded to God and that the Jews covenant has been superseded by a different covenant and refuse to follow the way of God and therefore deserve punishment because of that, you can easily justify any behavior done to Jews. Or at the very least, turn your back in apathy when others do so , saying to yourself that, if only they had believed in Jesus, this wouldn t have happened to them. History has shown this time and again. Personal encounters with Christians who tell me they love me to try to convince me to abandon my faith for theirs and then turn vicious with insult when I politely decline reveal this, too. Religious Jews believe that abandoning the faith of God through the eternal Torah, the relationship that is believed to have kept Israel alive through all such previous attempts, would be worse than anything that anyone could do OR HAS done to Jews.
I believe that there is sincerity in the heart of many Christians when they claim that they try to convert us out of love and concern for our souls, but it is a misguided love at best. If you love someone, you would not ask them to abandon the very thing that makes them who they are and the thing most dear to them, and my faith is most dear to me.
When we refuse to recognize their truths and abandon Judaism to embrace their replacement theology, history has shown that this love often allows many Christians to act out in hatred or turn a blind eye to others who do because of a belief that is repeated from church pulpits, Jews deserve to be punished for rejecting Jesus and only when they come to embrace him will their suffering end. Not only have I heard this sentiment come straight from the mouths of Christian clergy in person and on television, I ve read this virtually hundreds of times from people who professed their Christian belief all over Yahoo in the past 9 years. If you think this is not a socially acceptable attitude among a significant number of Christians, one has only to look at the enormous success of the Left Behind series and their horrid video game that has children at their TV sets, torturing the Jews and Muslims and other non-believers who were not taken up in their rapture .
.Jewish philosopherm, Emil Fackenheim, who spoke several years ago at the West End Synagogue, put it this way. "The Holocaust was the culmination of a 2,000-year campaign by the Christian world against the Jews. It began early on with them telling us, `You cannot live here as Jews.' And in country after country, they forced us to convert. Later the message became, `You cannot live here.' And in country after country, they forced us to leave. Hitler's message was, `You cannot live.' And they exterminated one-third of our people." Christianity was a rallying cry to justify what the Nazis were doing in Europe. Every soldier wore a belt buckle emblazoned with God is with us in German. To deny this abuse and perversion of the Great Commission is to deny the darkest chapter in Christianity s history. I bring this up not to condemn Christianity, but to condemn using ANY religion s tenets to justify demonizing the other and declare that any other people deserve eternal torture and punishment. And my HOPE is that by TEACHING YOUR Christian children how your religion was so HIJACKED in the past in Nazi controlled Europe, that you may better guard against the possibility of it ever happening again. Right now in the world I see fundamentalist Islam using the self-same methods to entice their followers to believe in the rigtheousness of the violence they perpetrate on civilians.
My spirit soars when I see Christians working together to speak out against those of their own fold who try to justify intolerance and bigotry with their religion. When Christian groups form to combat the Wesboro Baptist Church fringe element, or when Christian groups speak out against the white supremacist Christian Identity movement, that speaks of a path of righteousness.
When Christians promote the Left Behind series and encourage children at public schools to read them, promote an agenda of divisivness that all who don t worship Jesus are of the devil and deserving of punishment, that tells this Jew, they are the kind of Christian that would have been easily swayed by the message of the positive Christianity of Nazi party. It was largely Christians who were their downfall, but make no mistake, it was largely a Christian fervor that allowed that atrocity to happen in the first place.
May a narrow fundamentalist belief that others deserve torture or punishment NEVER again take hold in the world as it did in my parents generation. Already I m witnessing Jew hate increasing to a degree I never hoped to see in my life and I m witnessing people justify suffering in Israel once again, because of a refusal to accept Jesus .
It was godlessness of the Communists that were the greatest political enemies of the Nazis and they focused on that by presenting themselves as the positive Christian alternative. They had the support of both Catholic and Protestant leaders and across Europe, where they took over areas formerly occupied by the Communists they were hailed as being sent by God to restore God to their communities.
I ALSO recognize that it was LARGELY CHRISTIANS who were Hitler's DOWNFALL and I thank God for that! I do not intend to demonize Christianity in this answer..I intend to look at the harsh reality of what happened so that by examining it..people can RECOGNIZE when any leader tries to use ANY religion to incite hatr
People who have sorted themselves out don't need to scapegoat others. But most people have some uneasiness within, and unfortunately such things continue. Thank you for your capacity to stand up for Jews and challenge this offensive stereotyping.
Sadly, I believe the gentile is somewhat jealous of this integrity.
I am a practicing Catholic and respect all people, the above situation is mainly centered around the lack of education.
Once people become more educated they can begin to learn a lot from the hebrew/jewish people.
God bless'
Early on it was the Catholic Church that declared "Jews killed Jesus", Deicide is the term, & therefore deserved to die. It goes on from there. Christians weren't allowed to loan money but Jews were & weren't allowed to own land or do much else, so Jews did that, but that didn't earn them any love. The blood libels are another Christian invention. Martin Luther (the reformer who started Protestantism) also got mad at the Jews when he "fixed" the problems with the Church & they still wouldn't convert.
The sagas continues & is very long & diverse. From that implanted the deep hatreds & bigotries. It's improved in the last 30 years, but it's still a major danger to Jews & Judaism & Israel (a lot of the complaints at Israel stunningly parallel classic anti-semitic comments).
This is a huge topic so I'll add some reference sites.
I'd like to add that the Church through Pope John Paul II has officially apologized to the Jewish people & many other denominations followed suite.
http://www.adl.org
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org (as a section on anti-semitism)
http://www.wiesenthal.org (or weisnthal or .com)
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A quick read down these answers & several are classic anti-semitic lies. Constantly in YA I see this stuff. The whole "Jews control" is part of the lies.
Wow, anti-semitism is alive & well on here with those TDs. Do people really not know this history? Or just hate having it said out loud? That is terrifying!!! I challenge anyone to research themselves & email me.
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A clarification...I say NONE of this to "blame" Christianity in the current day, nor Christians. I say it because if the past isn't understood, it can't be put & kept in the past. I am very grateful that you (the asker) stand up for Jews. Righteous people matter hugely in this world to everyone. And Jews have depended on & needed them many a time. Sadly I see answers to YA questions all the time with classic restatements of the items I started to describe above, & I've experienced it in real life. So the past isn't there yet. So, thank you.
Proud of you for standing up for them. (:
Nothing's wrong with Jewish people.
People are just prejudiced. That's all.
So I say it is pure ignorance from most.
I am not Jewish but I have many contacts that are. Cher is one of them and I believe her statement is very accurate.
The church built those up for centuries, and then acted oh-so-surprised when it was used to rationalize genocide during WWII.
John 15:18
"If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.
~Peace~
Bigots hate Jews. Bigots are not people, they are sub-human.
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They are about 2% Jews in the US, yet they are THE largest contributor to Politicians above any other special interest group. That is a big reason we suport Isreal when the whole region hates them. They also control our media so they can feed us the message that THEY are the opressed and not the opressors! Why is it our business anyway?
i could use some answers here
tanx for asking
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I believe only shallow people hate those they don't even know, unfortunately some of those people end up in powerful positions and that hate can do some real damage if not stopped.
It is good that you stand up for others.
Even if you don't believe in God......I'll say it anyway.....God Bless!!
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