Dead Letter Hate Mail

Deep in the muck of my "awaiting moderation" comment pile I found some snarky stuff about Pope Francis allegedly claiming that Christians can't be antisemites, "no true Scotsman" was the framing.  Like just about all of the asininity that flows from the direction of P. Z. Myers and his cohort, that was both a misunderstanding and misrepresentation of what Pope Francis said while meeting a delegation to  World Congress of Mountain Jews.  What Vatican News translates him as having said is:

“As I have often repeated, a Christian cannot be an anti-Semite; we share the same roots.  It would be a contradiction of faith and life.  Rather, we are called to commit ourselves to ensure anti-Semitism is banned from the human community”.

Which isn't a question of whether or not someone who considers or calls themselves Christians are guilty of antisemitism,  we're all vulnerable to sin and hypocrisy, it makes the point that antisemitism inevitably negates Christianity.   Considering the undeniable truth that Christianity was founded on the same roots as modern Judaism and those roots are undeniably what would come to be called "Jewish" antisemitism inevitably is heretical.  I've pointed out recently that the Nazis and collaborating Christians sought to destroy the very nature of Christianity to remove the central Jewish content of it, leaving it a putrid pantomime costume that could contain Nazism.

Of course, that's too complex a thing for atheist blog flies to reason out and even if it weren't, if there's one way to piss off such atheists, it's to deprive them of their recreational hatred.  They are hate addicts, among the things they have in common with the FOX and Infowars audiences. 

I'm kind of glad I had to look this up because  I was totally unaware of the Mountain Jews and their interesting history and the extremely encouraging fact that they are still here and enough to form a World Congress.  That's the most encouraging thing I've heard since finding out the Maine Senate and the U.S. House will be controlled by Democrats.