Saturday, January 20, 2007
REPORT ON GLOBAL ANTI-SEMITISM
In this January of 2007, I would like to think that America, said by many to be a Christian nation, would be as concerned about global anti-Christianity as our nation is about global anti-Semitism. To the best of my knowledge, the U.S. Congress is determinedly unconcerned in spite of growing evidence that global anti-Christianity is increasing.
Meanwhile Harmony Grant points out the inconsistencies in an article on the untouchable religion at thepeoplesvoice.org.
It's easy to slip into the habit of skirting all issues Jewish so as to avoid the anti-Semitic charge. Yet the Holocaust was not a get-out-of-sin-free card. There is as much evil in one religion as there is in another. Look at the present state of the Catholic Church! It would be wrong to insist that the world could not criticize the Catholic sexual abuse scandal. It is equally wrong to avoid and to make laws that preclude discussing evil in other religions, including the Jewish religion.
Man is universally capable of evil. No religion exempts him. Truth must replace political correctness, and truth must be brought to the interreligious dialogue table if we are going to learn to get along. Some of that truth is not going to be pretty. And talking about the ugliness can get you into a whole lot of trouble, as Benedict discovered not long ago in Regensburg.
