First, a little pointer on forum function for
SisterAgatha. In responding to a post on a site like this the best practice is to quote the post to which you are responding. That way there is no confusion regarding who you're replying to, particularly if there have been posts from other members that follow the post you're answering. It's very easy to do. In the top right of each post you'll see a link that will allow you to quote the post in question with one click.
After you click the "Quote" button, you'll be at a "Post Reply" page with the post already quoted. That is, you'll see that it's enclosed in quote tags: [
quote author=Recusant link=topic=. . .]What Recusant said.[
/quote]
Just click below the last quote tag, write your response and post it. If the post seems too long (like this one, for instance
) feel free to remove what you consider extraneous. As long as the part you're answering is within the quote tags, your responding post will have context that helps readers understand who you're talking to, and what you're talking about.
ETA: I see now that you've used the quote function elsewhere. Ah well, I hope you take the above in the spirit in which it was intended i.e. not condescending.
The Jews have the better part of two millennia's worth acquaintance with the Catholic church, SisterAgatha. As those years rolled by they were intermittently getting the crap kicked out of them, and this was incited and encouraged by the Catholic church.
^ Oh for goodness sake that is not true!
Some bad people attacked Jews back then but that doesn't mean they are doing what Jesus wanted them to.
I didn't say that "Jesus" incited and encouraged the persecution of Jews,
SisterAgatha. I said the Catholic church did. Whether you want to acknowledge this or not, it's a historical fact. I can give you links to several sources that describe how the Catholic church preached against the Jews, but most of them are Jewish. Below is a quote from
an article written by a Catholic priest:
The theological anti-Judaism of the Church fathers, repeated endlessly in medieval and Renaissance-Reformation preaching, was the far greater culprit. It was the continuing rationale for the indefensible Christian conduct of the Middle Ages onward that was xenophobic and angry at Jewish resistance to absorption into the cultural mainstream. But because the Church’s preaching and its catechizing had long shaped the popular mind, a new phenomenon was able to come to birth: modern anti-Semitism.
It does make me sad how our leaders and laypeople have treated Jews over the years.
I really hope that never happens again.
On this we can agree.
