Things Heard: e52v1
Monday, January 26th, 2009 at
9:24 am
- A suggestion for an econ primer.
- A rising tide.
- The New Martyrs.
- If … there are no earmarks in the “stimulus package” why is ACORN expecting dough? And what is that expected to “stimulate?” In other news … why are bridges and roads always mentioned along with the earmark, err, stimulus bill if it’s such a small part of it?
- Of celibacy and the early church … laity.
- A Sunday homily courtesy of Mr Daniels.
- Tweeet. Wheee … and other celebratory noises.
- An evangelical remembers St. Gregory.
- An Amen! offered.
- Or perhaps it’s not all about you. Mr Schraub notes … “I think institutional Christianity has long since proven that its default position is of hostility to Jews.” which of course explains perfectly the rise of Antisemitism in Europe (see #2 above) as institutional Christianity wanes.
- Of making oaths under false pretenses.
- Virtual fraud.
- Another Sunday homily … this from from Mr Weedon.
- So … remind me why this guy is exemplary?
- Why I ride a road bike (disturbing image … be warned).
- A quiet voice in a cave?
- The UAW and why in an economic downturn support of the unions is not in our best interest.
- Mr Colson roils the waters.
- 2010 … better or worse than today?
- A great cathedral noted.
- Or … faith groups don’t read the fine print.
- That change we can believe in … or not.
- A magazine released.
- Today’s economy in perspective.
- Obama as Palpatine?
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Yes, because Jews pine for the time when institutional Christianity was waxing in Europe as our golden age of happiness and light. That the Catholic Church feels like jumping on-board the train of rising anti-Semitism now would be more disheartening if I had been convinced they ever really had left it in the first place.
David,
You are remarkably close minded when it comes to Benedict. First off, the move was made not on account of anti-Semitism or its lack but to heal a church schism and promote unity. As part of his statement re-instating those Bishops, the Vatican also strongly denounced the particular antisemitic statements made by the one Bishop … a point which you fail to note or perhaps even notice.
As for your claims that the Church (which is and has never been unified/institutionalized in the way you seem to suggest) is “institutionally anti-semitic” it seems to me there are three options. That the Church motivates antisemitism, the Church is affected and influenced by exterior antisemitism prejudices, or that that the Church suppresses antisemitism. I suggest that all three have occurred at different times and places but that in Europe today the latter is more likely … and that includes the Vatican. For the suggestion that antisemitism is waxing at a time when the influence of the Church is waning suggests the latter.
I await a logical, reasoned, and perhaps non-ironic reply.
Non-ironic? Wrong blogger.
Church unity purchased at the expense of rehabilitating a rabidly anti-Semitic member? What possible problem could I have! So the church cares more about appeasing some of it’s conservatives than it does about showing respect to the Jewish community (I guess we’re just unreasonable to find the denunciation rather weak sauce given the context). That’s the church’s prerogative, but it’s one we as Jews will keep in mind. Push comes to shove — church cares more about internal power plays than it does about Jews. What that says about it’s willingness to take tough stances against anti-Semitism when its popularity rises in Europe, Latin America, or Africa, I think is pretty clear.
Thanks for the link, Mark.