The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #76250   Message #1357154
Posted By: GUEST,Gerry
14-Dec-04 - 10:11 PM
Thread Name: Songs that offend you
Subject: RE: Songs that offend you
Mikefule wrote,

       Question: If we accept for the moment that there was a "Christ", and that
       "The Christ" was executed, then was He killed by the Jews?

       Answer: Some Jews actively promoted His death; some stood by and silently
       condoned it; some stood by and silently condemned it; many probably didn't
       give a monkeys one way or another - they lived in brutal times; some few
       tried to stop it; and MOST Jews never knew a thing about it.

I'm not sure what makes Mikefule think that some Jews actively promoted the death of
Jesus. In any event, Jesus was killed by the Roman authorities of the day.

weelittledrummer wrote,

       If you are choosing to translate 'the holy people' as the Jewish people, and to
       interpret The Lord of the Dance as an anti-semitic tract - all I can say is that it
       seems like a terrible slander.

I've made the case earlier in this thread for interpreting "holy people" to mean the Jewish
people as a whole, but I've also pointed out that even if it only refers to one Jewish faction
or organization it is still saying that Jesus was crucified by Jews. To say that Jesus was
crucified by Jews is to perpetuate an anti-Jewish lie.