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Pope exonerates Jews for Jesus' death
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Published: 03.03.11, 07:33
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31. To # 5 Salam
Lioness ,   Israel   (03.03.11)
Actually everything you have learnt is UNTRUE. There was never ever a palestinian state but you are welcome to create one in Jordan where the wast majority of people call themselves Palestinians!!!!!!!
32. Wasn't that already part of Vatican II ?
Dorothy Friend ,   TEl Aviv   (03.03.11)
In the 1960s? Now, when is he going to comment on the church's slaughter of Wise Women (to them witches)?
33. Died in pain and suffering...
Dorothy Friend ,   Tel Aviv   (03.03.11)
...sounds a great deal Messiah worthy than a guy who died in a comfy hospital bed decades after taking the opportunity to flee when his people were being destroyed. Not that I believe in either of them, mind you
34. Anyone remember Mr. Benizri...
Dorothy Friend ,   Tel Aviv   (03.03.11)
...telling a Ma'ariv reporter (at the height of the Mel Gibson/Passion episode) that the Jews did kill Jesus for being a heretic? (Unfortunately Ma'ariv in English is no longer available, so I can't cut+paste). He said it was done with a proper Jewish trial, and the sentence carried out in a proper Jewish way. And it was a private internal affair.
35. Juice did
Known   (03.03.11)
36. no accusations as a whole!!!
m ,   jerusalem   (03.03.11)
that doesnt mean that a select few didn't have anything to do with it hahahahaha
37. too late
fad egypt   (03.03.11)
first of all i would like to express my opinion in that controversial issue the killing of jesus wasnt a crime , he came with all of his own will to die for all the humanity he was the sacrified lamb for our sins or example when jesus went to egypt to avoid king herod when he was a baby boy i imagine if he didnt return to israel and remained in egypt , he would die in egypt by the same way at the hands of the romans because this was his plan to die for the humanity the second point , the jewish people didnt kill jesus the jews were divided into three groups : one group believed in him as the messiah and those who formed the church the second group refused to accept him as the christ but they considered him as a holy man the third group demanded his crucification and those were groups of corrupt religious people who dont understand the religion and dont represent the jews and were allies of the romans and were trying to satisfy them in order to remain in their positions those people with the romans killed jesus jesus himself said many times during his life that he is going to jerusalem and will be killed at the hands of gentiles the fourth point even if the jews killed jesus and even if this was a crime there is no any justification for hating the jewish people or for killing them impossible this is against the judiasm and jesus teaching itself even if the jews are our enemies jesus told me to love my enemy but the opposite is true the jews arent our enemies they are jesus younger brothers jesus told us to love , and help the jewish people he will judge us on that issue why the whole jewish people pay the price of the mistakes of some corrupt religious leaders?!! why didnt these catholic christians kill the romans for their persecution of the christians??? the catholic church is the reason or that disaster it has a long history of hating jews and inciting against them and killing them
38. #22 Jason, Jesus was our leader !
Salma ,   Palestine   (03.03.11)
Since you are so ignorant, I advise you to read ' the ancient history of Palestine' by Islam Muzaffar Khan, he said and he is right " The Palestinian land is the land south of syria made history and the history-making" : )
39. #5 Yes!!!
Eli ,   Yerushalayim   (03.03.11)
Salma, then you know now what your education is worth. Reuven I like your comment.
40. Pope exonerates Jews for Jesus' death
Harold ,   USA   (03.03.11)
It means Judas Iscariot's tale is not true and the New Testament has to be changed and corrected.
41. Bloody Papacy
Sasafrass ,   Someplace, USA   (03.03.11)
This is all PR. Nothing has changed in the RCC or the Papacy. Did the RCC expunge the council of Trent? NO, nor any other council doctrines either. The Papacy murdered millions, Jews and Christians alike for their own devious ends. They confiscated the property of Christians as the went from city to city, murdering Christians for believing the Bible rather than the corrupt teachings of the RCC cult. Too Little, Too Late! I say! The RCC has a lot more apologizing to do. A LOT MORE! The blood of the martyrs crises out!
42. The Jews actually did not kill Jesus
JOHN ,   JERUSAEM   (03.03.11)
but their spiritual leaders were the ones behind the killing by demanding from the Roman Authority to do that. And later in the early days of Christianity the first Christians were persecuted and killed by the Jews. St. Stephen was brutally killed in Jerusalem stoned to death by gang of Jews led by Saul of Tarsus. No apology up to date.
43. Why stop here
Shalom ,   Ashdod, Israel   (03.03.11)
What about the rest of the lies that have been propagated by the Church for thousand of years?
44. Is pope s exoneration for free?
ORA ,   JERUSALEM   (03.03.11)
45. #5, #15 wrong
Israel Israeli ,   Tel Aviv   (03.03.11)
Israel was under Roman military occupation and the civil administration was run by a Hellenized (what is now called assimilated Leftist) governor Herod Antipas, son of Herod the Great. Because the Jews were not sovereign they were not allowed to give a death sentence. That is why Herod sent the Jew Jesus of Nazareth to Caesarea for sentencing by the non-Jewish Roman Prefect Pontius Pilate. If you want to blame some nation, remember that Herod the Great wasn't Jewish (his father was an Edomite and his mother was a Nabatean (Arab)), that Herod Antipas' mother wasn't Jewish (she was Samaritan) and that his first wife was an Arab princess.
46. "Bar'chu!" (I'm A Jew)-Video !!
(03.03.11)
http://emunadate.blogspot.com/2011/02/barchu-im-jew.html
47. the pope's catholizism stinks
EU secular zionist ,   munich/germany   (03.03.11)
The only real Christian was Jesus himself as Buddha was the only "Buddhist", to say so. And so on. Followers of every kind of so-called religion are always on a broad and beaten track, studying dead scripturs and having odd ideas about something what they call God and what's around. Life doesn't fit between two book boards. See the akward developement with Muhammad's Islam: ideas and a mixture from allover. Today degenerated by inferior ones into bloodsheed and terror. What kind of God should this be? Yes, I'm a heretic. And there is - of course - something far larger as we are - but don't call it God and make beliefe people into akwards concepts how the world should be.
48. Blood never brings reconciliation, it only
Chris Rettenmoser ,   Bayerisch Gmain Germ   (03.03.11)
brings guilt...!!! The story line of the Gospels is a LIE and the whole world knows it...!!! The antisemitic content of the Christian Bible brought misery upon the Jewish people for milleniums and it also led to the Holocaust of the Nazis...it is 2000 years too late for such a ridiculous exoneration...
49. And COME ON Pope, nobody died for
Chris Rettenmoser ,   Bayerisch Gmain Germ   (03.03.11)
"my" sins which I never ever had done...We are free people and NOT the slaves of this pervertet Christian ideology...!!!
50. #16, NO one of the living is guilty of his
Chris Rettenmoser ,   Bayerisch Gmain Germ   (03.03.11)
death...do you feel well...???
51. nr 24.
Orao. ,   Srbia.   (03.03.11)
Some Day you will understand. By Nobody. Orao.Srbia.
52. The Romans killed Yshua bar Yoseph
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He was a Torah observant leader of the Jews. There is nothing real about Jzeus. Shema Yisroel!
53. #52 - That's not what Benizri said..
Dorothy Friend ,   Tel Aviv   (03.03.11)
...in an interview with Ma'ariv few years back! He said that the Sanhedrin sentenced him to death and he was killed in the Jewish way and seemed darn proud of it, too! Unfortunately, the site of Maariv-English no longer exists, so I can't send you a link.
54. Give me a break!
Ramon Alon ,   Brazil   (03.03.11)
Yeshua was not italian, pope, catholic or something like that. He was jewish ... so why punishing our people? They should love jewish people like evangelicals do.
55. And what of "Oremus et pro perfidia Judaeis"?
coco can ,   Jerusalem   (03.03.11)
On the one hand the prayer has been appended and changed as follows: "Let us also pray for the Jews: That our God and Lord may illuminate their hearts, that they acknowledge Jesus Christ is the Savior of all men. (Let us pray. Kneel. Rise.) Almighty and eternal God, who want that all men be saved and come to the recognition of the truth, propitiously grant that even as the fullness of the peoples enters Thy Church, all Israel be saved. Through Christ Our Lord. Amen." On the other hand it was Pope Baruch who reinserted this prayer into the Roman Catholic Rite's Good Friday Service and only changed the formula of the prayer after complaints were filed by a whole host of Jewish organizations world wide. So basically until this Pope issues an additional Papal Bull which clearly confirms that he the yolk of the "Nostra Aetate" Document of Vatican II upon himself nothing has changed. This Pope is still merely enjoying himself while playing a very serious word game. Additionally this Pope should directly order the removal of the "Oremus et pro perfidia Judaeis" prayer from the Roman Catholic Church prayer canon. Basically my conclusion is that this Pope is not being honest and candid about his office's and church's feelings towards world Jewry! N.B. A lesson for you, Brod, see how it is possible to write serious fact based criticism against the Catholic Church without needing to insult the leaders of the Catholic Church. It is called being an educated and polite person. It is also called being enlightened. BTW have you looked up "Shatnez" yet?
56. Unbelievable!
Tamhighpoint ,   Prince George, U.S.A   (03.03.11)
Salma, What the Pope has written is true- it wasn't the Jews who killed Jesus; The Pharisees wanted him dead because they feared they were loosing control of the masses. No no one took Jesus' life..he laid it down for you and me so that we would have a way to eternal life. Ask God about it.
57. NO ONE KILLED RABBI YESHUA. He gave up his life Himself.
Rivkah   (03.03.11)
No one could have taken His life from HIm. Only He could lay down His life for His friends, to atone for the sin of Adam and all since then who were and are or will be chosen by YHWH. NO ONE KILLED YESHUA. He gave up His life or it could not have been taken from Him.
58. 15 Chris: It was the Jewish tradition for the family of the
Rivkah   (03.03.11)
condemned person to cast the first stones or to hammer the nails into the crucifixion. It was the adopted father of Yeshua, Joseph or Yosef of Arimathea who hammered the nails into Yeshua and who pierced his side later with a sword according to Olaf Hage of Maine's research and commentaries. In Mark 9:1 Yeshua said there would be people who were alive at the time he was on earth who would still be alive when He returned to set up the Kingdom of Eloah on earth. Joseph (Yosef) of Arimathea is one of those people who walk through a gate of heaven in Jerusalem every 50 years at the summer or winter solstice to become young again. Look at the photos of the heads of Johannes Gutenberg, Leonardo da Vinci, and some others and you will find it is the same person. Olaf Hage believes it is Joseph of Arimathea, the wandering Jew and brother of Miriam (Mary) the mother of Yeshua. Where is he now? If you look at a photo of Ariel Sharon that was in the New York Times in August 2006 of when he was about fifty and compare that to the Shroud of Turin face, you will find remarkable similarities, even a hook-shaped scar under the left eye.
59. 32 Dorothy Friend, TA: The witches were were slaughtered
Rivkah   (03.03.11)
were mostly midwives. Males decided they wanted to take over that profession so they accused the midwives of being witches to get rid of them. In Scriptures, it is an abomination to YHWH for a male to be a midwife (OB/GYN) and to look at the private parts of females they are not married to. It used to be before the slaughter of the midwives who were called witches, that midwifery was a female occupation.
60. so can we claim our dead one's back??
Larry ,   Los Angeles   (03.03.11)
After the church urged mobs on to kill, rape, pillage and plunder Jews, and after so many Jews died from the church's now revealed lies, can we claim compensation for two thousand years of living hell? In effect this means that all the popes and their henchmen were wrong, all the christians that did us in were mere criminals, so can we have some compensation??
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