Jesus is one of the major reasons it was hard to be Jewish. It took years for the Christian community to get over the fact that we probably had him whacked. Mel Gibson still carries a grudge. For God’s sake, it’s the reason he had a drinking problem. Or as he liked to put it, “For the love of Christ, get me a margarita.”
I have to say that I was disappointed when the Catholic Church let the Jews off the hook. For centuries they were absolutely sure that we were intimately involved in the crucifixion of Jesus, even the Jews born hundreds of years after the deed was done.
I have never felt the need to be macho because I knew that my people had killed God’s only begotten son, and that was all I needed on my résumé. Christ-killer sure beats being called a kike. Of course, either expletive is usually followed by a good ass kicking. But I felt it kind of gave me a leg up. “I killed your savior, so bring it on.” Talk about the ultimate fighting match.
And why were Catholics so pissed at us? If someone didn’t kill Jesus, there’d be no Christianity. (Much like if Anna Nicole Smith hadn’t died, she wouldn’t be famous.)
~Lewis Black
I have to say that I was disappointed when the Catholic Church let the Jews off the hook. For centuries they were absolutely sure that we were intimately involved in the crucifixion of Jesus, even the Jews born hundreds of years after the deed was done.
I have never felt the need to be macho because I knew that my people had killed God’s only begotten son, and that was all I needed on my résumé. Christ-killer sure beats being called a kike. Of course, either expletive is usually followed by a good ass kicking. But I felt it kind of gave me a leg up. “I killed your savior, so bring it on.” Talk about the ultimate fighting match.
And why were Catholics so pissed at us? If someone didn’t kill Jesus, there’d be no Christianity. (Much like if Anna Nicole Smith hadn’t died, she wouldn’t be famous.)
~Lewis Black
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
