Why is it that throughout history the jews have been persecuted over and over. Comes the second question, why then do you think that after all the attempts on their lives they are still around (the oldest nation in history)?
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Becasue they are the chosen race
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It comes from a long history of being persecuted and murdered. Holocaust, terror attacks, inquisitions, crusades, pogroms, false accusations of drinking blood.. etc, etc,
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"I asked what if Jesus wasn't the only Messiah"\nYou're a bit confused, aren't you ... ... I see a messiah-related question from you, linked to whether there was a fifth Judas gospel. How can you expect an open answer to that question.\n\nAnd the Jews don't think Abraham is/was the Messiah.\n\nNot only don't you know what you're asking, you obviously don't know what you're talking about either ...\n\n... and this from the man who asked "Why did yahoo censor my reply to "how many differant sorts of rape"? Good to see you're a well-balanced individual.\n\nHonestly - what is the point of you?
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Two of the most meticulous record keepers of Ancient Times were the Romans and the Jews, and as you rightly point out, the events recorded in the Bible somehow seemed to escape their notice.  Pontius Pilate's court records still exist, and there is no mention of the trial of Jesus or of the supposed custom of allowing the crowd to free a prisoner.  It is a tradition among the Egyptian Coptic's that their Church was founded by the Apostle Mark, in 42 ad, certainly the first major Christian Chatecal School was in Alexandria, but not until 190, so there could have been several generations worth of revisions.  Hadn't heard that one about about the Sun metaphor, Jesus didn't even get a nimbus in religious art until the 5th century, and then it was part of political deal the Emperor was cutting, The three main religions in Rome at the time were Christianity, the scribes and record keepers, Mithra ism, the army, and Sol Invites (the Unconquerable Sun), the wealthy landowners.  He couldn't afford to make any of them mad, so he declared Mithra and Jesus were two names for the same being, and that YHWH was another name for Sol Invictus.  That is why the rays of the Sun became a Christian symbol of holiness.  The Bible, in it's current form, only dates back to the Vulgate, which was completed in 405.  Personally, I think we should go back to traditional values, this new fangled Christianity stuff just ain't working out.
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So many people are so ignorant that they dont care anymore.  I think some people can't get over the past. Well, myself, wasn't alive when a lot of it(the past)happened.  Just because I have German heritage doesn't mean that I had anything to do with the death of Jews and neither does my ansestors.  C'mon people, get real and figure it out!  We are all human and the only difference between us is the color of our skin or hair, we all bleed red, we all cry and guess what, we're all American. The past is just that, the past.
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Jews. There isn't even any call for second place, by comparison.\n\ntracy - Hitler didn't "persecute" the Jews. He built factories specially designed to gather them together, extract things like gold fillings, hair, all their property, work them to exhuastion, starve them, then exterminate them in large numbers as quickly as possible and dispose of their remains efficiently. So tell me again, how did Saul persecute the Christians compared to that?\n\nChristians just WISH they had some of the persecution of the Jews because of their masochistic obsession with martyrdom. Truth is, most of the time Christians were being persecuted, it was by other Christian sects.
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The Jews are and always will be God's chosen people. Unfortunately because of this, the powers of spiritual darkness in the world have targeted Judaism for that very reason. As a Christian, I for one have to say thank you, you have given us the Patriarchs as an example. God Bless you.
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Wow...I'm amused by the previous post.  Does he really think that Jews never lived in Palestine?  He should read any history book.  Jewish history in Palestine is well documented, and has been known for generations.\n\nI think today, most of the world recognizes it as a region in limbo...not quite a nation, but not exactly a territory.  It is unique.  \n\nI think it is sad that nations of the world are unwilling to recognize nations that are effectively independent.  I don't know if Palestine quite qualifies yet, since it still depends on Israel for a lot of its financial and trade responsibilities, but it clearly isn't a typical territory.  But clearly there are other places in the world that operate as nations, but the world simply refuses to recognize them.  I think immediately of Somaliland (the northern chunk of Somalia) which has apparently been operating independently for some time, but which the world seems unwilling to deal with.  It seems unfair.  Perhaps there are issues that I'll never understand.  Or Taiwan, which is clearly a separate country from China, but which we continue to ignore to give power to a big bully.  Sad.\n\nI suspect that one day, Palestine will be treated as an independent nation, but I hope they will take time to consider their economic policy before that happens.  If they continue to operate as they are now, the nation will starve.  The government seems to have learned too much economic policy from Israel, and has adopted the Israeli model of socialism.  Sad.  Perhaps they would do well to look back to the history of the Arab peoples and research the Saracen history, in sources like Rose Wilder Lane's "The Discovery of Freedom", to find a model that would make Palestine liveable.  \n\nIf they continue down the current path, it will only lead to more devastation for everyone.
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Judaism. They have been fighting to stay alive for 4,000 years. People are always trying to mess them up.
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Hitler did not all of a sudden say, 'Hey, lets band everyone together by hating Jews.' The hatred of Jews in Europe goes all the way back to the time it became Christian. Passages in the Christian's New Testament paint "The Jews" as being the children of the devil, hypocritical, and interested only in money rather than in Gd. \n\nWho wrote the following???\n\n"""But since I learned that those miserable and accursed people do not cease to lure to themselves even us, that is, the Christians, I have published this little book, so that I might be found among those who opposed such poisonous activities of the Jews and who warned the Christians to be on their guard against them....Now, in order to strengthen our faith, we want to deal with a few crass follies of the Jews in their belief and their exegesis of the Scriptures, since they so maliciously revile our faith. If this should move any Jew to reform and repent, so much the better. We are now not talking with the Jews but about the Jews and their dealings, so that our Germans, too, might be informed....Our Lord also calls them a "brood of vipers"; furthermore, in John' 3:39 he states: "If you were Abraham's children would do what Abraham did.... You are of your father the devil." It was intolerable to them to hear that they were not Abraham's but the devil's children, nor can they bear to hear this today.... For they are a heavy burden, a plague, a pestilence, a sheer misfortune for our country. Proof for this is found in the fact that they have often been expelled forcibly from a country, far from being held captive in it....Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of devils in which sheer self-glory, conceit, lies, blasphemy, and defaming of God and men are practiced most maliciously and veheming his eyes on them.......but then eject them forever from this country. For, as we have heard, God's anger with them is so intense that gentle mercy will only tend to make them worse and worse, while sharp mercy will reform them but little. Therefore, in any case, away with them!"""\n\nIt was Martin Luther, one of the founders of the Protestant movement in Christianity! See:::\n\nhttp://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/1543-Luther-JewsandLies-full.html\n\nRemember, Germany was about one half Catholic and one half Lutheran, at the time of Hitler.\n\nCHURCH LAW and NAZI LAW \n1. Prohibition of intermarriage and sexual intercourse between Christians and Jews - Synod of Elvira, A.D. 306 \n1. Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honor - Sept. 15, I935 \n\n2. Jews and Christians not permitted to eat together - Synod of Elvira, 306 \n2. Jews barred from dining cars - Dec. 30, 1939 \n\n3. Jews not allowed to hold public office - Synod of Clermont, 535 \n3. Law for the Re-establishment of the Professional Civil Service - April 7, 1933 \n\n4. Jews not allowed to employ Christian servants or possess Christian slaves - 3rd Synod of Orleans, 538 \n4. Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honor - Sept. 15, 1935 \n\n5. Jews not permitted in the streets during Passion Week - 3rd Synod of Orleans, 538 \n5. Decree authorizing local authorities to bar Jews from streets on certain days - Dec. 3, 1938 \n\n6. Burning of the Talmud and other books - 12th Synod of Toledo, 691 \n6. Book burnings in Germany - 1933 \n\n7. Christians not permitted to patronize Jewish doctors - Trulanic Synod, 692 \n7. Decree of July 25, 1938 \n\n8. Christians not permitted to live in Jewish homes - Synod of Narbonne, 1050 \n8. Directive by Goring providing for concentration of Jews in houses - Dec. 28, I938 \n\n9. Jews obliged to pay taxes for support of the Church to the same extent as Christians - Synod of Gerona, 1078 \n9. Jews must pay special income tax in lieu of donations to the Party imposed on Nazis - Dec. 24, 1940 \n\n10. Jews not permitted to
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^Have you read the Talmud?  Have you studied it?  Can you understand it?  Do you know what it is?\n\nLet us not forget that the Old Testament is Jewish and the christians accept it in it's entirety.  Jews have to wait until Yom Kippur for forgiveness, even assuming your premis to be correct.  Cross-kissers can simply fess up at their convenience, mumble a few incantations and kiss a ring or a  statue to get theirs.  Protestants have to earn forgiveness, except for those sects who are doomed from birth (other than the select chosen ones.\nIf your question was intended to be anti-Semitic, it was a poor effort.  If it wasn't, learn a little about racism before you open your mouth because yours is blatant. \n\nAs for other racist books, try most anything put out by the monks in the Middle Ages.
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Just for the record: in this country, jews have notoriously helped and supported all minority groups in this country... I am jewish and know my American-Jewish history very well.\n\nYou do realize that everything you said is no better than any of those you accuse to be preaching hate and separatism?
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someone said "a true christian will not hate the Jews.they are gods chosen people" \nThen why don't you convert to Judaism, so you would be one of the chosen ones too? \nJust wondering? truly no offense is intended.
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Palestinians been living there since we know time.  Now there comes militans Zionst Jews claiming it was there land 5000 years ago.  Zionsts came with major fire power and snatched it away from Palestininans.  What if I came to your house and told you I used to own this land 5000 years ago and I have God given rights, what would you do?
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Master of the world? What kind of racist ,unfounded statement is that? How does Israel even attempt to be master of the world? Sorry that every single neighboring country in the region attacked the Israelis and Israel won. If you call defending yourself from those you wish to destroy you master of the world, what do you call it when you attack someone who posed no threat to you. Perhaps Bush's bomb now, give reason later strategy is keeping wrld peace, while fighting back to multiple countries with a much larger fighting force than you is being master of the world.\n\nPerhaps Medo would like to answer why they think of the Jews as a virus. Ummmm, I'm not sure all you anti-semites realize this, but Hitler was lying, Germany's economic problems were caused by an over-harsh treaty of Versailles imposed on them by three non-jewish countries. Hitler wanted to blame someone who wasn't Aryan to make them seem like the master race. The Jews had nothing to do with the collapse of Germany, in fact, they had nothing to do with any problem. The Arab-Jew conflict in Palestine right now over the fact that the Arabs refuse to accept Israel as a nation, repeatedly attacking it. Wars don't help in peace talks usually. Anyone who hates Jews for the deaht of Jesus should realize that the church hand-picked the gospels it liked, the ones that declared Jesus a deity and the Jews his betrayer. They rejected all the other scrolls, sayin they were written too far after Jesus's death to be accurate. However, all the gospels, chosen and rejected, were written at about 300 AD.\n\nTherefore, you see that every single racist claim against the Jews is either a myth or a lie by a man who murdered millions. Anyone saying that the Jews are a virus obviously han't checked any facts and prefers to listen to the hate and lies spewing from one of the most evil men to ever live's mouth
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we know jesus existed because the romans wrote the history of that time. they were the dominant power and were not fans of jesus or the jews, or any other sub-group of that era. you'll recall that they were the ones who actually crucified him at the jews request. also they persecuted the jews and other religious minorities after the death of christ. rome would be a pagan government for quite some time after the death of christ. your concern is over whether or not jesus was a divine being. did he do the things that are written? was he who he claimed to be? not did he exist. the victors of that period wrote their historys and acknowledged jesus.
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Everything smells like anti semitism to most Israelis  and I am sick of it   When will you jerks realize that you are in a religious state - and when someone speaks out against Israel, he is not necessarily anti-semetic - it just means they disagree with the policy of your government.  While we are talking about the Jewish State - when will Israel give us its illegal stockpile of nuclear arms?    I woul dlike to see the US begin to distance itself more and more away from Israel and would also like to see us curtail the defense "gifts" in foreign aid we send you --- and if you think that makes me an anti Semetic - Then Damn it, I am, and I am proud to be one....