Harvard Ichthus Apologizes For Essay Claiming Jews Deserve Punishment For Killing Jesus

[question everything]

BOSTON (AP) — A Christian journal run by Harvard University students has apologized for publishing and republishing an essay by an anonymous writer who wrote that Jews deserve to be punished by God for killing Jesus.

The Boston Globe reports (http://b.globe.com/19RWKYY ) that the essay was posted on the Harvard Ichthus (IHK'-thoos) website on Wednesday, removed, edited, reposted Friday morning and removed again.

Ichthus editor-in-chief Aaron Gyde posted an apology on the journal's website Saturday on behalf of the journal's editorial board.

Gyde wrote that it wasn't the intent of the writer or the Ichthus to present an essay that could be interpreted as anti-Semitic. Gyde says the blog was intended to communicate the necessity of salvation through Jesus Christ.

The essay was written by an anonymous Jewish convert to Christianity.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/24/harvard-ichthus-jews-jesus_n_4333862.html?utm_hp_ref=college

[Journeyman]

1. Hmm. Harvard students seem content with recycling stale Middle Ages Jew hate . . .

So much for the creative breadth of the Crimson Quad.

They'd do better to update their Passion Play, perhaps bring a little Tull into the mix . . .

Tell us: is it you who are here for our good cheer?
Or are we here for the glory, for the story, for the gory satisfaction
of telling you how absolutely awful you really are?

[meti57b]

2. If Harvard University students think the Jews did it...

afaik, ...... Jesus was a Jew, and probably a revolutionary against the Romans. If there was one thing the Romans would not abide, ..... it was revolution and revolutionaries. Execution by crucifiction was a Roman method of execution. If 2000 years later, Harvard students feel that someone should be punished for this, maybe they should be checking out the Italians(?) (Keeping in mind, that history was never my strong point).