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In reply to the discussion: This Easter, let's not try to pretend Jesus was a 'Palestinian Jew' [View all]sarisataka
(23,016 posts)62. Jewish deicide
Those who dies 2000 years ago don't care but Jews alive today care when it is a group slander used to justify violence against them.
Jewish deicide is the notion that the Jews as a people are collectively responsible for the killing of Jesus, even through the successive generations following his death.[1][2] A Biblical justification for the charge of Jewish deicide is derived from Matthew 27:2425.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_deicide
The notion arose in early Christianity, the charge having been made by Justin Martyr and Melito of Sardis as early as the 2nd century.[3] The accusation that the Jews were Christ-killers fed Christian antisemitism[4] and spurred on acts of violence against Jews such as pogroms, massacres of Jews during the Crusades, expulsions of the Jews from England, France, Spain, Portugal and other places, and torture during the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions.
In the catechism that was produced by the Council of Trent in the mid-16th century, the Catholic Church taught the belief that the collectivity of sinful humanity was responsible for the death of Jesus, not only the Jews.[5] If one were to claim that only the Jews were responsible for Jesus' death, the logical corollary to this would be that Jesus' redemptive suffering, death and resurrection was for the sins of Jews alone and not all of humanity, as is taught by the Church. In the Second Vatican Council (19621965), the Catholic Church under Pope Paul VI issued the declaration Nostra aetate that repudiated the idea of a collective, multigenerational Jewish guilt for the crucifixion of Jesus. It declared that the accusation could not be made "against all the Jews, without distinction, then alive, nor against the Jews of today".[1]
Most other churches do not have any binding position on the matter, but some Christian denominations have issued declarations against the accusation.[
As for the religious control freaks that want to control women, that would be the Islamic fundamentalism Hamas wishes to impose on Palestine.
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Easter was originally a festival honoring a goddess of fertility. (Bunnies & eggs are symbols of fertility.)
Towlie
Mar 2024
#3
If you want to be accurate, Matthew's gospel says he was born in the Kingdom of Judea
muriel_volestrangler
Mar 2024
#47
Map is of the Holy Land dated 1895 and it appears to be a religious map with Jerusalem and Bethlehem in Judah.
LeftInTX
Mar 2024
#48
Although it is true that the Roman's controlled that region during the time Jesus was supposed to be born
ColinC
Mar 2024
#21
The Church Of Socrates isn't trying to fuck my nephew while denying my niece healthcare.
Iggo
Apr 2024
#75
So much hand wringing over a guy who most likely never existed, let alone was a god.
Sibelius Fan
Mar 2024
#17
So you say none of these silly religions attempt to control women. Only Hamas does?
Autumn
Apr 2024
#63
You just described the entire middle east and the fucking Christian right all over the world.
Autumn
Apr 2024
#65
I gave no opinion on what is or is not anti-Semitic so there is no way of you believing what
Autumn
Apr 2024
#67
It's about getting Christians (who are a huge majority) to not support Israel and support Palestinians instead.
LeftInTX
Mar 2024
#37
It was named Palestine by the Romans after they sacked and destroyed the Herod's temple
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Mar 2024
#34
No, lets pretend he was Lily-White and blue eyed as seen in many bibles.
republianmushroom
Apr 2024
#52
Well that seems unlikely...as Muhammad, the founder of Islam was born in c.570
EX500rider
Apr 2024
#69
I can't believe what I am seeing. We have remarkable consensus on a Israel/Palestine issue.
Beastly Boy
Apr 2024
#57
Does it matter what he was? No proof he existed, no proof he died. Judaism rejects
Autumn
Apr 2024
#68
No, it doesn't matter at all. What matters is that there is a certain established narrative associated with his name,
Beastly Boy
Apr 2024
#70