Reply #65: I am new here, and find this article, and some of the posts, disturbing. [View All]

I can understand and totally agree that anti-semitism should not be tolerated. But the article seems to be highly anti-Christian, insulting to Christians, in fact. My point is not really to defend Christianity, but to wonder why this is acceptable here?

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"The Christian kneels before a Jew's image, rubs his hands before a Jewess' (Mary) image, Jesus' apostles are Jews and so are the psalms he recites. Only few would be capable of overcoming these contrasts, and most of them seek to relieve the tension by means of anti-Semitic acts. Since they are obliged to worship a Jew as a god, they take revenge on the rest of the Jews, whom they describe as sons of Satan."

I recognize nothing of Christianity in what the rabbi describes. This is not meant to say that there has not been, historically, anti-semitism within Christianity, but the attitudes described in the quoted passages seem totally foreign to what I understand to be the Christian experience of most Americans. Now certainly one could argue that the writer is describing late 19th century Vienna, a place which apparently has little to do with the modern-day United States, but in that case, what is the point of even posting this article?

And further, is not the author of these words just as guilty of generalizing about Christians as anti-semites are of generalizing about Jews? Why should there be a different standard?

I find this article offensive.