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"RIGHT ON, JONAH! [ Mike Potemra]
Your post on Jews and Evangelicals was an important contribution to the cause of religious understanding-especially the part at the end about how today's Christians are showing great improvement over their religion's past record of anti-Semitic excesses. The recent controversy among Catholics over whether the Church should formally proselytize Jewish people shows how far Christians have come: The debate is between A) those who believe Jews are entitled to be told what Catholics believe is the full truth (i.e., Christ and Catholicism) and B) those who believe God has a separate and valid covenant with the Jews that he will fulfill in His own way and in His own time. Neither side in that contentious debate shows any kind of disrespect or bigotry against Jews. (Gone-for good-are the days when the Catholic liturgy contained references to "the perfidious Jews.") This is yet another sign of progress--progress we should build on, instead of carping about theological fine print"
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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