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Thread #112434 Message #2385702
Posted By: Phil Edwards
10-Jul-08 - 11:01 AM
Thread Name: Was 'Lord of the Dance' anti-semitic?
Subject: RE: Was 'Lord of the Dance' anti-semitic?
I did take the position that "the holy people" meant "the Jewish people," but I have elsewhere in this thread noted that there is still a problem if "the holy people" is interpreted as the priests, or as the Pharisees, or as the Jewish religious or political or legal authorities of the day.
Kindly identify this problem. As I said earlier on, if Meir Kahane were alive I would have no problem saying that I hate his guts; that doesn't mean I hate Jews, and nobody sane would imagine it did. Similarly, saying that Jewish holy people of Jesus's time objected to his teaching and activities doesn't say anything about the Jewish people of the time, let alone present-day Jews.