 |
| Remember their names |
In “An address to the churches” by Seelisberg,
it says that we have been exposed to the definition and consequences of Anti-Semitism but it has not yet lost its force but is growing to reach other
regions. It invades our mind whether we are Christians or not. Even though Christian churches defined the
spirit of Anti-Semitism as the hate of all race. It is yet not sufficient. One
of the reasons why Anti-Semitism existed and still exists today is because we
as Christians have not been true to ourselves and our teaching of Jesus and his
commandments. Furthermore, if we are
willing to follow him, we should deny and avoid Anti-Semitism in any form,
especially Christian message which supports it.
Nevertheless
we hope that the church will teach and ask its followers to stay awake and to
avoid showing any kind of hatred against the Jews. Also to avoid stereotypes
against them such as: the killed Jesus for only the Romans could punish by
crucifixion. King Herod is not as innocent as he seemed for even though he
stated that he did not understand why they wanted to kill Jesus and that he did
not want to take part of this, he still ordered them to bring Jesus to
Pilate. Other stereotypes such:
responsible for the downward of the economy, blood libel which is the stealing
of Christians’ babies to make Passover food.
It
would be better if we followed the 10 points which says that God talks to us
through the old and New Testament. Marie, Jesus’ mother is often not mentioned
to be Jewish but Jesus was and you can only be Jewish if born by a Jewish
mother. We need to remember one of his commandments which state that we should
love our neighbors as we love ourselves, there should be no exception to that
law. One Jew is not all Jews. In Jerusalem, when Jesus was being accused not
the whole Jewish population was present, only a small portion wanted him dead.
The Jews, Romans and whoever was present
are not the only responsible for the death of Jesus. It is clearly stated that
Jesus dies for all of us. Therefore, our sins are responsible for his death. He
died for us so we could live. What we have to remember is that Jews have always
been suffering but the worst of them all was the Shoah and there was absolutely
no reason why they were massacred. It
makes absolutely no sense at all. I am being persecuted because i am a Jew as if freedoms
of speech, religion and many more have not been allowed. They no longer had
dignity for they were deprived of it. If today us human beings have not yet
learned from the Shoah for Anti-Semitism is still happening today then we will
never learn. It took the death of more
than 6 million Jews to teach us that we need to change but yet , some of us
still haven’t change and it is a shame that they haven’t done so.
0 comments:
Post a Comment