The Blood Libel is false.

The R A N T of G L E N N glenn3@frontiernet.net
Glenn Jacobs / 130 N. Poverty Flat / Box 954 / Eagar, Arizona 85925 / 928-333-3517
Permission is granted to edit, print and/or broadcast these weekly polemical essays.
(To subscribe -- for yourself or a friend – or to unsubscribe – send the e-address.)

Not all the Nazis are dead

Letter to the editor;

One of those dreary anti-Semites sent me a long and detailed e-mail condemning Jews.
It contained the regular, standard generic hate-tripe that we have all heard before.

He said “the Jews” are not real Jews, or even Israelites, but degenerate Asiatic Russians.

He said Jesus and the real Israelites were tall, blond and blue-eyed.

He said Jews are the literal children of Satan, part of a separate evil creation, especially created for the purpose of being destroyed.

He said every single Jew of every generation is guilty of the death of Christ.

THIS IS GRADE “A” UNADULTERATED MALARKEY!

Jesus was a Jew among Jews. His mother and step-father were Jews.

His disciples and Apostles were Jews. His friends and His enemies were Jews.

He was learned in the Jewish scriptures and traditions.

He taught Jewish Law and ethics in public, and He was called Rabbi in public.

He did not condemn the Jewish Law: Rather, He condemned those who violated it.

When he came to Jerusalem only a few days before His death, the words of the crowds of admiring believers indicate that they either wanted Him to be King – or possibly that they actually MADE Him King. Pilate thought Jesus might be the king of the Jews.

Yes, there were some Jews – maybe a hundred – who were conspired in the death of Jesus. They are all long dead. Their descendants cannot be guilty of that crime.
The Bible records that they shouted, “His blood be upon us and our children!” But they could not actually bring guilt on their children or on anybody else.

No. The old blood-libel that “the Jews killed Christ” won’t wash. It’s just not true.

Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona