Anti-Defamation League survey<\/a>, in which a quarter of respondents responded said that it was true or probably true that “Jews were responsible for the death of Christ”.\nOnly 25%? I have to assume that most of the respondents were attempting to answer an entirely different question: are any Jews today responsible for the death of Christ? I suspect if you asked that, you would get 90% of people saying no; people have done similar polls in the past with that result.\n
The thing is, I’m no Christian (as my Gentle Readers know), but if you believe that the events described in the gospels are actual, historical events, and that Jesus was (or is) Christ, then how can you say that there were no Jews implicated in the death of Christ? It’s preposterous. You can say that Jews were not solely responsible, or that only a few of the Jews of the time were responsible, or that the responsibility of a few Jews isn’t really relevant, or something along those lines. The answer a person gives to the ADL’s question most likely depends on which of those a person interprets the ‘Jews were responsible’ to mean.\n
Heck, if they had asked me, I would have, well, refused to answer, probably. But the issue there is that I don’t believe that Jesus is Christ, not that I think that no Jews were involved in Jesus’ death (I remain uncertain in my mind as to the whether Jesus actually existed, as there is little evidence; I tend to give his and Hillel’s existence the benefit of my own doubts, but I’m not as certain that they existed as I am that, say, Herod existed).\n
OK, Your Humble Blogger is rambling. It seems to me that one of the strangest things going on with the current interest in the Passion (both the film and the story) and its relation to Jews is that the ADL among others seems to want to argue the weak specific instead of the strong general. Even if every single Jew alive at the crucifixion had urged it and howled for blood, it no more makes me responsible than it makes a baby born today to German parents responsible for Peter the Hermit. \n
Unless, of course, the ADL’s concern is that people have their gospel wrong, and should by rights be beating up Italians, too.\n
Redintegro Iraq,
-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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