From: levene@aplpy.jhuapl.edu (Robert A. Levene)
Newsgroups: alt.messianic
Subject: Re: It's the same Judaism
Date: 19 Jul 92 04:14:30 GMT
Organization: Johns Hopkins University


I have no doubt that Tom Albrecht and Bill Hamilton are personally
fine people and upstanding citizens.  I'm superimposing these excerpts
to show why their articles nevertheless sent chills up my spine.

Tom Albrecht writes:

> astray, the same thing happened.  The Assyrians and Babylonians executed
> God promise that there would be no Promised land for the disobedient.
...
> Modern Judaism is the heir of this legacy.  Rather than acknowledge her sin
> before Almighty God and turn from her wickedness and embrace her Messiah,
> she has become more hard-hearted over the generations.  The Christian
> gospel, a gospel no longer restricted to one nation, still holds out hope
> for those who would turn to Messiah.  The remnant is still being saved, and
> regrafted into the root.  
...
> The only hope for Judaism is not in your traditions, but in the Lawgiver,
> Jesus Christ.  You need to look to Him in repentance for redemption and
> restoration.  That is the eternal message of real Judaism.

* Quoting from Prager and Telushkin's _Why the Jews_:

 " In March 1942, the leader of the Slovak People's party, Father Joseph
Tiso, a Catholic priest , agreed to expel the Jews of Slovakia.  After
his Fascist Hlinka Guard conducted massive manhunts for Jews, 35,000
were sent eastward to be murdered in the death camps.  A Slovakian
rabbi went to Archbishop Kametko and asked him to influence his former
private secretary Tiso to stop the expulsions.  The archbishop
responded:
     'This is no mere expulsion.  There you will not die of
      hunger and pestilence; there they will slaughter you all,
      old and young, women and children, in one day.  This is 
      your punishment for the death of our Redeemer.  There is
      only one hope for you - to convert all to our religion.
      Then I shall effect the annulling of this decree.' "


In article <87114@rphroy.ph.gmr.com> hamilton@gmr.com writes:

> It's standard Christian belief to regard rebellion against God as
> wickedness.  From a Christian point of view anyone who does not
> acknowledge that Jesus is Lord is in rebellion against God. What Tom
> said about the Jews is true also of anyone, of whatever religion, who
> does not acknowledge that Jesus is Lord.  Not because they have a 
> difference of opinion with us (we are of no account before God) but
> because they are in rebellion against God.

* Quoting from Prager and Telushkin's _Why the Jews_

  "In the fall of 1944, Rabbi M.D. Weissmandel escaped while on route to
a concentration camp, and met with the papal nuncio, describing for him
the horrors of the Jews in temporary camps awaiting deportation to
Auschwitz.  He begged the papal nuncio to intervene with Tiso.  The
papal nuncio answered.
     'This being a Sunday, is a holy day for us.  Neither I
      nor Father Tiso occupy ourselves with profane matters on
      this day."
Weissnamdel persisted, aguing that the lives of innocent
human beings, including infants and children, were not a profane
matter.  The papal nuncio responded:
      'There is no innocent blood of Jewish children in the
       world.  All Jewish blood is guilty.  You have
       to die.  This is the punishment that has been awaiting
       you because of that sin [the death of Jesus].'"


In all fairness, I might as well quote the following:

*  Pope John XXIII, shortly before he died:

    "We realize now that many, many, centuries of blindness have
  dimmed our eyes so that we no longer see the beauty of They
  Chosen People and no longer recognize in their faces the features
  of our firstborn brother.  We realize that or brows are branded 
  with the mark of Cain.  Centuries long has Abel lain in blood
  and tears, because we had forgotten Thy love.  Forgive us the
  curse which we unjustly laid on the name of the Jews.  Forgive us
  that, with our curse, we crucified Thee a second time."

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