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CrusaderPepe on scored.co
25 days ago1 point(+0/-0/+1Score on mirror)1 child
Brother, I understand the anger at Christian Zionism and dual-covenant confusion. It is a serious error when Christians speak as though unbelieving Jews possess a salvific covenant apart from Jesus Christ, or as though modern political Zionism should function as a kind of sacred dogma. No Catholic can accept that. There is one Redeemer, one Cross, one New Covenant, and one Church.
But we have to be very careful here. Condemning Zionism, rabbinic unbelief, false theology, and the anti-Christ actions of organized Jewry is not the same thing as cultivating hatred for Jews as persons. Our Lord condemned Jerusalem, but He also wept over it. St. Paul says the unbelieving branches were broken off, but he also says his heart’s desire and prayer is that they be saved. The traditional Catholic position is not racial hatred. It is theological truth: outside Christ there is no salvation, and the Old Covenant has been fulfilled and superseded in the New. We want the Jews to sincerely convert (not crypto-Jews) so they stand with us against organized Jewry.
As for Christian Zionists, I would not automatically say every one of them is not Christian. Many have been badly catechized by Protestant dispensationalism, Scofield notes, political propaganda, decades of sentimental “stand with Israel” rhetoric, and the Holohoax. Some are malicious Judaizers, yes. But many are simply confused Christians who have never been taught Hebrews, Galatians, Florence, Aquinas, or the Fathers.
That said, you are right that something is deeply disordered when Christians treat criticism of Zionism or Judaism or organized Jewry as worse than the rejection of Christ Himself. That reveals how powerful the modern taboo is. But we should answer it as Catholics: clearly, courageously, and without letting righteous indignation become personal hatred.
And on 70 AD: yes, the destruction of the Temple is the divine historical witness that the old sacrificial order was finished. But we should not revel in human suffering. The Catholic point is not “look how awesome destruction is.” The point is: Christ prophesied it, the Temple fell, the sacrifices ceased, and the New Covenant remains. We should pity these poor perfidious Jews that reject and hate Christ and Christianity, out of hardness of heart and spiritual blindness; not hate them. That is the argument.
25 days ago1 point(+0/-0/+1Score on mirror)1 child
Destroying temples of demons is the sort of destruction I enjoy.
Also when I work construction and I'm getting paid to do demolition and someone hands me a long handle heavy sledge hammer and points at the pneumatic jackhammer and I have my steel toe boots and leather gloves on I get excited.
As a Supreme White Man I prefer to build things for the Glory of God.. but I confess I get a little schadenfreude stomping on the ruins of my enemies.
But we have to be very careful here. Condemning Zionism, rabbinic unbelief, false theology, and the anti-Christ actions of organized Jewry is not the same thing as cultivating hatred for Jews as persons. Our Lord condemned Jerusalem, but He also wept over it. St. Paul says the unbelieving branches were broken off, but he also says his heart’s desire and prayer is that they be saved. The traditional Catholic position is not racial hatred. It is theological truth: outside Christ there is no salvation, and the Old Covenant has been fulfilled and superseded in the New. We want the Jews to sincerely convert (not crypto-Jews) so they stand with us against organized Jewry.
As for Christian Zionists, I would not automatically say every one of them is not Christian. Many have been badly catechized by Protestant dispensationalism, Scofield notes, political propaganda, decades of sentimental “stand with Israel” rhetoric, and the Holohoax. Some are malicious Judaizers, yes. But many are simply confused Christians who have never been taught Hebrews, Galatians, Florence, Aquinas, or the Fathers.
That said, you are right that something is deeply disordered when Christians treat criticism of Zionism or Judaism or organized Jewry as worse than the rejection of Christ Himself. That reveals how powerful the modern taboo is. But we should answer it as Catholics: clearly, courageously, and without letting righteous indignation become personal hatred.
And on 70 AD: yes, the destruction of the Temple is the divine historical witness that the old sacrificial order was finished. But we should not revel in human suffering. The Catholic point is not “look how awesome destruction is.” The point is: Christ prophesied it, the Temple fell, the sacrifices ceased, and the New Covenant remains. We should pity these poor perfidious Jews that reject and hate Christ and Christianity, out of hardness of heart and spiritual blindness; not hate them. That is the argument.
Also when I work construction and I'm getting paid to do demolition and someone hands me a long handle heavy sledge hammer and points at the pneumatic jackhammer and I have my steel toe boots and leather gloves on I get excited.
As a Supreme White Man I prefer to build things for the Glory of God.. but I confess I get a little schadenfreude stomping on the ruins of my enemies.