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Thread #112434   Message #2381454
Posted By: GUEST,Jack the Sailor
05-Jul-08 - 02:16 AM
Thread Name: Was 'Lord of the Dance' anti-semitic?
Subject: RE: Was 'Lord of the Dance' anti-semitic?
.....correction.

It is very clear that in the scenario of the trial and execution of Jesus, some Jews caused his death. Most people, all sensible people, do not share the belief that all other subsequent and contemporary Jews are to blame. That would be like blaming all arabs for what Bin Laden has done. If someone is determined to believe such tripe, censoring this song won't help. I think that the songwriter used a horrible metaphor to express the story as told. It is no more or less anti-Semitic than the story in the Bible, which I do not believe was anti-Semitic at all.