This was an incredibly frustrating article to read. I agree with nearly everything in it, and yet Oren takes a machete to his own hand by repeating lies about what Christians believe concerning Jews. Some Christians did indeed blame Jews for the death of Jesus – up until ABOUT 500 YEARS AGO. I’ve spent a lifetime in Christian ministry ci…
This was an incredibly frustrating article to read. I agree with nearly everything in it, and yet Oren takes a machete to his own hand by repeating lies about what Christians believe concerning Jews. Some Christians did indeed blame Jews for the death of Jesus – up until ABOUT 500 YEARS AGO. I’ve spent a lifetime in Christian ministry circles, and traveled all over the world, and I have never, NOT ONCE heard a living Christian blame Jews in general for the death of Jesus. I’m sure you can find kooks on the internet to who claim to be Christian and who hold that view. But if it genuinely exists, it represents a microscopic minority of actual Christian people.
I’ve never even heard the myth of Herod killing 144K children. The fact is, Herod himself was not a Jew, but an Idumean (descended from the Edomites of the Old Testament), and the children he did kill were Jewish children. Again, this a complete non-issue for actual Christian human beings living today.
Here’s the truth: EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS ARE OVERWHELMINGLY PRO-JEWISH AND PRO-ISRAEL. Michael Oren ought to know that. If is as concerned as he claims, he needs to recognize that today, serious Christians are among the most staunch supporters of Jews and Israel; probably second only to Jews themselves.
This was an incredibly frustrating article to read. I agree with nearly everything in it, and yet Oren takes a machete to his own hand by repeating lies about what Christians believe concerning Jews. Some Christians did indeed blame Jews for the death of Jesus – up until ABOUT 500 YEARS AGO. I’ve spent a lifetime in Christian ministry circles, and traveled all over the world, and I have never, NOT ONCE heard a living Christian blame Jews in general for the death of Jesus. I’m sure you can find kooks on the internet to who claim to be Christian and who hold that view. But if it genuinely exists, it represents a microscopic minority of actual Christian people.
I’ve never even heard the myth of Herod killing 144K children. The fact is, Herod himself was not a Jew, but an Idumean (descended from the Edomites of the Old Testament), and the children he did kill were Jewish children. Again, this a complete non-issue for actual Christian human beings living today.
Here’s the truth: EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS ARE OVERWHELMINGLY PRO-JEWISH AND PRO-ISRAEL. Michael Oren ought to know that. If is as concerned as he claims, he needs to recognize that today, serious Christians are among the most staunch supporters of Jews and Israel; probably second only to Jews themselves.