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Ocelot II

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3. *Somebody* had to kill Jesus or there's no point to his whole story.
Tue Apr 29, 2025, 07:26 PM
Apr 29

He was supposed to have suffered and died for our sins (I'm not sure how that really works, but that's what the doctrine says), and he was then resurrected (did God change his mind?).

That said, the bit about the Jews killing him is, of course, false; it was the Roman governor, Pontius Pilate, who was responsible; Jesus was executed for sedition against Rome. But if the GOPers are so concerned about anti-Semitism, why are they making an exception for the lie that the Jews killed Jesus, which is the very foundation of anti-Semitism, dating from the Middle Ages? Christians wouldn't have been hating and persecuting Jews since medieval times but for that very lie. If you sincerely want to do something about anti-Semitism in all forms you can't very well object to advocating support for Palestine and/or opposing Zionism on one hand (positions often espoused by leftish college students) while permitting others (some evangelical Christians) to preach the seminal lie that Jews killed Jesus. Seems pretty hypocritical to me.

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