It's like a "Black Best friend." I'm pretty sure they are imaginary best friends."That's not racist, my Black best friend says so."
And yes, Jews know the teachings of Christianity. We know it very well. http://www.pewforum.org/2010/09/28/u-s-religious-knowledge-survey/
In many ways, I do believe it's somewhat true, many Christians truly have no idea why there is such hostility from non-Christians, and it does come across as bigoted to them. Because they don't see any connection between them and the pogroms and mass forced conversion and the expulsions and blood libels and the sheer attempted genocide. It's possibly called privilege, it's possibly more complicated.
But that isn't even the problem to me. I finally got my Christian friend to get it when I challenged her to say something like this.
"I believe that the world is a better place for having the Jewish religion in it and I would see the disappearance of the Jewish religion as a tragedy." Because I can say it for Christians. I wish them much happiness in their faith, not because I believe it's right but because I believe in a God big enough to love them for who they are.
She was really torn because she couldn't say it. ANd it hurt her, because she understood now the hostility. It's not just that they tried to erase us. It's that they're still erasing us. And it's very hard not to feel hostile towards an idea that wishes you didn't exist.
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Date: 2013-08-24 04:31 pm (UTC)And yes, Jews know the teachings of Christianity. We know it very well. http://www.pewforum.org/2010/09/28/u-s-religious-knowledge-survey/
In many ways, I do believe it's somewhat true, many Christians truly have no idea why there is such hostility from non-Christians, and it does come across as bigoted to them. Because they don't see any connection between them and the pogroms and mass forced conversion and the expulsions and blood libels and the sheer attempted genocide. It's possibly called privilege, it's possibly more complicated.
But that isn't even the problem to me. I finally got my Christian friend to get it when I challenged her to say something like this.
"I believe that the world is a better place for having the Jewish religion in it and I would see the disappearance of the Jewish religion as a tragedy." Because I can say it for Christians. I wish them much happiness in their faith, not because I believe it's right but because I believe in a God big enough to love them for who they are.
She was really torn because she couldn't say it. ANd it hurt her, because she understood now the hostility. It's not just that they tried to erase us. It's that they're still erasing us. And it's very hard not to feel hostile towards an idea that wishes you didn't exist.
She's been a lot better since.