The ethnic Hungarians complain, the ethnic Germans have left but are still vilified, pockets of Serbs are treated as foreigners after five generations.

This is the area that gave up half a million Jews in two months at the end of WWII: a triangle from Budapest to Cluj to Transcarpathia in Ukraine. They gave them up without hatred, but with a shrug. Oppressed peoples do not band together (except in America), as we expect they might.

I had always thought of Western Europe in counterpoint to this — as a typical product of an eastcoast university education, I thought of western europe as a dependable bastion of tolerance and progressiveness. London has taught me otherwise, and acquaintances from Italy, France, and Austria have confirmed it. It is not just Muslims and closet fascists in Europe who hate Jews. If the Klan spoke with the right accents to disguise their Americanness, they would be well-accepted in Austria and France. On the Left.

You shouldn’t keep your feelings bottled up. Tell us how you really feel about the Euros.

I saw some reference to the the Euros having some idea of building a wall and hiring the Israelis to do it and I didn’t bother to follow the link – I figured it had to be The Onion or somesuch doing satire.

Holy Freakin Bleep! Put aside the sheer arrogant hypocrasy of the very idea following their never ending condemnation of Israel for building its wall, just stop and realise – They want to rebuild the Iron Curtain!

There really is no hope for Europe. None.

The latest example can be found at this link:

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39998

It’s hard to say if this reflects both anti-Semitism and anti-Russo/Ukraino/White Russianism, or just the general tendency of Europeans to act like buttheads. Thank heavens they did whatever it was to run my poor old white trash ancestors out of the old country they did.

Your quotation from the 1583 source specifies many types of unbelievers, including Jews, apostates, infidels, schismatics, and others–mainly what us Baptists would call backsliding Christians. They are not to be allowed to take Communion. And, why would they want to?

Your quote from the Vatican diplomat is not, I repeat not, Christian doctrine.

It’s ok that you quote both sources, but I think you’re a little contextually challenged. “No one can enter Heaven except through [Christ]” is what Christianity says about itself. The words of a diplomat priest are the words of a diplomat, while the words of Scripture are Scripture, if you see what I’m saying!

In no way, as a Christian, am I called to be content that souls are to be lost as a result of disbelief or disregard of Christianity’s claims for itself, by Jews, atheists, Muslims, or Episcopalians.

I am not offended, therefore, that there is a piece of sculpture that shows Christianity in a more positive light than Judaism. I would certainly not expect to see a crucifix at synagogue, or a menorah at mosque.

I do believe that the many mainstream churches whose bosses and members have ended evangelism in order to be “tolerant”–who believe, in practice, that “one religion is as good as another”– have become social clubs, not churches, irrelevant to the point of Christianity, which is the soul in eternity with, or without, God. They, too, are unbelievers, which others have mentioned as “secularists.”

I suppose it may be argued that it was technology that enabled the murder of the six million by post-Christian Europeans in a very short six years or so, and that such murder was always in the Christian European heart as well, if only they’d had the tools.

But it would be hard to convince me. Religious murder in Christianity has, in truth, been an aberration; the Gospel does not call for it or support it. Religious murder by Muslims is a central tenet of that demonic “faith.”

Maybe French hoodlums put up the graffiti; maybe Muslim demon-worshippers; maybe French politicians. But I’ll bet fifty cents it wasn’t priests from the cathedral.

I was referring to recent anti-Semitism in France.

Going back through history, though, anti-Semitism is pretty much 100% the fault of historic Christian teachings meshing with prevalant social attitudes.

Now, I want to recognize that the modern Church, and modern Christianity has made remarkable and by all account deep-seated and honest changes in how Jews and Judaism are viewed, and the historic fact of the Christian origin of anti-Semitism in no way is a reflection on the CURRENT state of Christendom.

In other words, I do not want to bash Christianity as it is currently practiced and taught.