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I must say I wasn't expecting this. I think I'm going to repost this. I guess I should have put no trolling in the rules, but I might as well have some fun now. (Some may think that my opponents words were B.S., if you do, you can skip my arguments for this round, (& probably the rest of the debate).) My opponent begins with: "The holocaust was punishment for killing Jesus." My opponent brings no evidence for this most harmful myth, which has caused the death of countless Jews over the centuries, & has now finally been rejected. (It's about time, but I guess it's better late than never.) Official Christian doctrine no longer holds that Jews killed Jesus, although it once spread that lie.[1] The Church through the Pope has already apologized for starting this horrible rumor used to kill so many Jews over the centuries. For more: http://www.adl.org... http://www.virtualjewishlibrary.org... Sadly, as you can see, hate & lies don't die easily. No record of Jesus being killed either in Roman or Jewish literature of the day. The Sanhedrin (Highest Jewish court) was big on record keeping, the claim that this whole outrage happened, & no mention is made anywhere belies that it happened. & There was political motivation at the time to cuddle up to the Roman victors & blame the Jews.[2] "The accusation of "Christ-killer" was used as justification for isolating, robbing, torturing, and murdering Jews. It's only in recent times--the last fifty years, perhaps not that long--that leading Christian authorities have reviewed the circumstances and acknowledged the injustices of the past 2,000 years."[3] "Documented evidence unearthed from authentic ancient manuscripts shows that it was rather a Roman appointed official out of jealousy, together with a few of his subordinates, who forced the Roman governor to Judaea Pontius Pilate to kill Jesus, US author John Hagee, reveals. The evidence reveals that the Jews were actually in his defence and if they had had a chance they would have both blocked and attacked anyone who would touch Jesus. In his book "In Defence Of Israel", Hagee reveals that Jesus was killed out of political envy by an individual and not by the nation as has been popularly preached on church pulpits and is also a side-doctrine in Islamic teaching."[4] "The most notable recent effort to answer Who killed Jesus is a gargantuan, 1,600 page, two-volume work The Death of the Messiah, written by Raymond E. Brown, one of the leading New Testament scholars of the late twentieth century. As Brown points out, while it is clear that some of the Jewish leaders were opposed to Jesus, it is also clear that only Rome had the power to condemn and crucify a man. Strains of anti-Judaism crept into the New Testament as the early Christians began to move away from Jewish traditions and embrace non-Jews into their movement. That is, as the early church sought to distance itself from its Jewish roots, it encouraged readings of the events of the Passion that would cast the Jewish authorities in a poor light. The writers of the gospels were not immune to this. Contemporary scholarship therefore treats this issue with justifiable care and attention. Daniel J. Harrington, S.J., a renowned New Testament scholar, answers the question simply: "Pontius Pilate, cooperating with some Jewish leaders, was responsible for the death of Jesus." The key point is that Jesus was executed by Romans for a Roman crime, that is, sedition. "Jesus was, in fact, executed by the Romans," writes D. Moody Smith, professor of New Testament at Duke University, in an essay in Harper's Bible Commentary."[5] Even If It Were True: There is no reason to lay blame at anybody's feet, because if Jesus had not died he could not be resurrected and his prophesy could not be fulfilled. The death and resurrection were all part of God's plan. If you believe all that.[2] Who killed Jesus is irrelevant. If you're a devout Christian, Jesus would tell you not to blame but to forgive. If Jesus hadn't died on the cross, you'd have no route to salvation. So in a way you should be thanking those who executed him, not blaming them.[3] Furthermore: If it was done, it was done by 1/ a few Jews, why should millions die? Furthermore: Jews who converted to Christianity were killed by Hitler. Even Jews who were born of Christian converts but had 3 or more Jewish grandparents were considered by Hitler to be Jews. "Anyone with three or four Jewish grandparents was to be exterminated without exception. In other genocides, people were able to escape death by converting to another religion or in some other way assimilating. This option was not available to the Jews of occupied Europe,[26] unless their grandparents had converted before 18 January 1871. All persons of recent Jewish ancestry were to be exterminated in lands controlled by Germany.[27]"(6) Furthermore: Although The majority of Holocaust victims were Jewish, about 5 million were not Jewish. At least 3 million were Christian. My opponent continues: " It was good" OOOOOOOOOOOKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY. That's the religion of love & peace for ya. [1] http://www.faqs.org... [2] http://answers.yahoo.com... [3] http://www.straightdope.com... [4] http://www.zimeye.org... [5] http://www.huffingtonpost.com... (6) http://en.wikipedia.org...