Clear-eyed, butch-mouthed Canuckess Kathy Shaidle at FiveFeetofFury, who doth not suffer Mohammedans gladly, has a note on the Jewish non-response to the pro-Hamas Death-to-Israel rallies across Canada. She wonders if too many Jews are stuck thinking that Christians are their enemies rather than Muslims.
BTW, she remarks that in her Catholic school childhood, it was made very clear to her that anti-Semitism was a sin. Same here, from the nuns and the priests. Right smack dab in the middle of 1950's NY Irish Catholicism.
It was made clear that it was our sins that killed Jesus and that the Jews of the time were only God's instrument. And the words of Pius XI, "spiritually, we are all Semites", were quoted.
Social anti-Semitism certainly existed. In the rough-and-tumble of NY, we called each other names in the playground and on the street before it became a capital crime (for Prince Harry but not for Muslim thugs and friends during DeathToJews rallies) but there was no theological support for it.
Certainly Jesus was God and the Jews denied it. Certainly the Church of Rome was the One True Religion and the Protestants denied it. But what we knew and which the highminded asshats who dominate our culture now don't know is that you can actually disagree with someone on a fundamental level and still be friendly, neighborly...hell, even fall in love with them and marry them. It's called tolerance.
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