I don't mean to slam anyone personally, just a couple of the usual hackneyed arguments expressed in this dissertation that Catholics get tired of hearing.
So we're supposed to believe, according to Mr. Blumenfeld, that the Papacy has an "unflattering history." He really should put his anti-Catholic bigotry aside for a moment and do his homework. His banality and unfortunate refusal to see the big picture is all too familiar and easily dismissed by any educated Catholic.
Regarding the burning of the Talmud, for example, does he realize that the book is replete with the most disgusting vulgarities about Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary, and Christians ever written? Anyone who possesses a copy understands that it attempts to justify the persecution of Christians by the leaders of the synagogue. Why has the book been hidden all these centuries from the general public and not readily translated into English? The injustice is not that such a "monument to human folly" could be burned, but that its vulgar teachings could be written and passed on in the first place.
Mr. Blumenfeld does not shy away from playing the much overused and often ridiculed "antisemitism" card as if persecution between Catholics and Jews went in only one direction. As a convert to Catholicism quite familiar with Judaism, I can assure him that the synagogue's persecution of Christ's Church which began in Jesus' time, has been far more ruthless and of much longer duration than the worst periods of so called "persecution" exhibited by the Church. Read the New Testament and the Talmud (if you can read Hebrew or have a rare translation) side by side. Then tell me who is persecuting who.
One should also be more aware than to identify Jews in general as Semites since the fact is the overwhelming majority of Jews today would be considered Gentiles by the Hebrews of Christ's time. The true Semites in the world today are Arabs yet we don't hear in the media of any "antisemitism" perpetrated against them. Fortunately today, people are becoming more educated in the field of ethnicity.
There is much more I could write, but for the sake of brevity, I will leave it at that. I will conclude by stating that the first 31 popes of the Roman Catholic Church were martyred. Yet the Papacy incredibly not only survived but exists today as a beacon of light to the nations as well as to loyal Catholics everywhere and who number today well over 1 billion strong! I wonder how many belong to Mr. Blumenfeld's clan.
Posted on Apr 9, 2009, 7:54 PM from IP address 72.153.226.31