*If Christians have used the bible to support apartheid, it is not because
they took anything out of context.*
Wrong, unless you cut the teachings of Jesus out of Christianity.
*Judaism is a tribal religion. It promotes racial purity. It really is an
"old covenant," and Christianity really has superceded it.
*
If this is true -- I don't think it is -- it contradicts your first
statement.
On 7/31/06, RFaussette@aol.com <RFaussette@aol.com> wrote:
>
> In a message dated 7/31/2006 10:14:18 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> dopderbeck@gmail.com writes:
>
> It seems entirely appropriate to me in response to that premise to
> separate the conduct of some Christians from the teachings and ideals of the
> Bible. Yes, some people calling themselves "Christians" ripped some Bible
> passages out of context and distorted them to support evils like Apartheid.
>
>
> Just a brief comment on the bible and apartheid:
>
>
> "The core texts of the Bible were written and essential elements of
> Judaism were deliberately developed to reverse the forced diversification of
> Israel by the Assyrian empire, to remove the foreigners imported by the
> Assyrians and recover the niches and the land lost to the people of the
> northern kingdom of Israel.
>
> The historian Mario Liverani writes:
>
>
>
> "The paradigm adopted in the book of Joshua is 'holy war,' clearly
> belonging to a Deuteronomistic matrix, but with deep roots in
> Syro-Palestinian ideology from the period of Assyrian pressure."15
>
>
>
> Additionally, "the idea of the conquest [of Canaan] as a total replacement
> (by extermination) of the preceding population by another cannot have been
> imagined before the beginning of imperial deportations."16
>
>
>
> The response of the survivors of the northern kingdom of Israel and the
> southern kingdom of Judah to forced population transfer and its
> multicultural context is a religious text promoting a strong kinship system
> and a vibrant shared monoculture. Throughout the Bible, Israelite society is
> motivated to religiously reject the foreigners and the "multiculturalism"
> imposed upon the northern kingdom of Israel by the Assyrians."
>
>
>
>
>
> 1. Mario Liverani, *Israel's History and the History of Israel,*page 286
> 2. Ibid., page 287
>
>
> This is the view of Israeli archeology and ANE history.
>
>
> If Christians have used the bible to support apartheid, it is not because
> they took anything out of context. Judaism is a tribal religion. It promotes
> racial purity. It really is an "old covenant," and Christianity really has
> superceded it.
> You can interpret Jewish universalism in two ways: As a universal
> brotherhood which has become Christianity, or as God ruling the world from
> the Jewish temple at Jerusalem. One is universal morality evolved from
> Judaism's ethics, the other is universal conquest evolved from Judaism's
> nationalism.
>
> rich faussette
>
>
>
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