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Pope exonerates Jews for Jesus' death
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Published: 03.03.11, 07:33
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61. next thing...
Lior ,   Israel   (03.03.11)
when a Jew complains they will tell us to buck up already and stop complaining. This libel to which every Jew has paid dearly and in the most unimaginable long lasting manner in a million horrible ways. When the Middle East is full of tyrants and oppressors and the world continues to pick at Israel the only country of democracy and freedom in the Middle East one must ask if this libel is so ingrained in the human soul it can never wash away. The irony is when a Christian can not live in peace in the ME because of religious persecution we see Salma, #5 disappointed the Pope debunked the myth; the very source of all abject hate against Jews.
62. #59 - Hey I read my Mary Daly...
Dorothy Friend ,   Tel Aviv   (03.03.11)
..and my Andrea Dworkin in the 1970s and early 1980s when those books came out. Oh, and my Adrienne Rich also. But in truth, a lot of the slaughter of women was post inquisition in the "age of reason," because as you say, the new medics wanted to kill off the competition.
63. #54 - Don't tell me the evangelicals love the Jews!
Dorothy Friend ,   Tel Aviv   (03.03.11)
I am old enough to remember the Billy Graham convert a Jew shows, and as for todays American evengelicals, they are willing to fight to the last Israeli soldier for their Messianic fantasies. Thanks, but no thanks!
64. Who killed the Lord, less important than His resurrection.
Brother Joe ,   Bay Parkway   (03.03.11)
65. #39 Eli, I too, like Reuven comment.
Salma ,   Palestine   (03.03.11)
Regardless of who killed Jesus , Reuven is the first "Israeli" admit that the Palestinians are here before the "Israelis" . Thank You! Brave man : )
66. and who exonerates the pope and his church ?
we dont exonerate ,   Il   (03.03.11)
for all crimes committed to the Jewish nation for centuries- inquisition- progroms etc
67. no justification
so what 53! ,   il   (03.03.11)
68. @Dorothy Friend: "You go girl!" I;m with you!
Salena   (03.03.11)
69. Translations
John Gilbert   (03.03.11)
Blame it on New Testament translations which still translate the word Judeans of the past 2000 years ago as the word Jews of the present day. They don't translate the word Romans of the past 2000 years ago as the word Italians of the present day.
70. headline on this story is needlessly incendiary…
Rafi ,   US   (03.03.11)
...I didn't see anywhere that the Pope actually used the word "exonerated". Pope Benedict is merely re-affriming the courageous initiative that the Pope John XXIII began in the 1960's. How can some of my colleagues turn this into a bad thing??
71. 30 Lioness, Israel: Rabbi Yeshua said the greater sin was
Rivkah   (03.03.11)
with those who delivered him to the Romans. But no human could have killed Yeshua. He gave up his spirit willingly as the sacrificial lamb, fulfilling the Spring Feasts of YHWH.
72. Jesus never existed. No proof, No evidence.
JMK ,   NYC   (03.03.11)
Absence of evidence is evidence of absence.
73. 72 What is your problem....
Dorothy Friend ,   Tel Aviv   (03.04.11)
..... in beliving that Jesus as a man, as a person existed. So don't believe he was the Messiah, fine. What scares you so much about believing that he existed as a mere human being? There is no more or less truth that he existed than that any other human being in the OT or NT existed. Me, I think he existed, but was not born of a virgin and was not the Messiah. I am not threatened by adimiting he lived. What's your problem with that?
74. Makes no difference
Maurice ,   LA, USA   (03.04.11)
Jesus was just a man who never could have been the Messiah and G-D himself according to Christians. If he was that would make G-d a descendent of King David. Do you see the stupidity of their claim?
75. We Jews have right to kill each other. Not his business!
he is a goy!   (03.04.11)
We Jews like other nations must have the right to kill each other. Jeses was a Jew and its no other nations' business to ask us why we kill each other. Do you ask Christians why they killed so many other Christians during inquisition or why they killed their holy Saints like Jon de Arc? How many Christians have annoucned they were Jesus incarnate and have been killed by the other Chrisitans and specailly the church? they even burn each other at the stake and we don't complain. Do we complain to Moslems why they have killed those leaders and Imams and saints who are considered holy by other sects of Islam? Do we ask Moslems why they kill thoes among them who claim to be send by Allah and are new Islam's prophets? Why do the followers of Islam and Christianity kill whoever claims to be a newly sent prophet ? just a few days in Islamic country of Iran a man was executed becuase he said he was god and many people were following him and worshiping him. I think every nations should keep busy killing their own people and not bother other nations. like the beautiful things Shia and Sunni Moslems in Iraq are doing these days and every day we hear of a group of Moslems killing other groups in suicide bombings in order to perform theri religious obligation of killing others! As long as they are all Moslems and they are killing each other on the basis of the same religion there shouldn't be any complain. I have one question from Pope though. Right now in Florida, there is a Puerto Rican man who claims he is Jesus and he is back. he has a minimum of 5 million followers who wroship him. He says there is no more sin and they don't have to worry about forgiveness. why Isn't the Pope asking all Christian Catholic in the world to start worshiping this man? Maybe the same way that Jews decided worshipiing Jesus was idolworship and he was not the real Messiah, he believes that this man is not the real Messiah? If this man makes miracles for his followers, should they all make statues of him and his mother and fall on their knees before them?
76. islam
joe ,   usa   (03.04.11)
yes you ARE wrong as always salami
77. # 5 Salma
J.K. ,   Brooklyn USa   (03.04.11)
You heard it from the highest christian authority;the Jews did not kill Jesus,and your own quran says,Jesus wasn't killed at all,so,what are you going to do now with this new information ?,you may appeal to the higher authority,above the pope, concerning the verdict of not guilty, or try the UN,poor salma,what a disappointment.
78. The Late, GREAT Jewish Comedian Used 2 Say(about the 'event'
Ed G. ,   Allentown, USA   (03.04.11)
The Late, GREAT Jewish Comedian Used To Say (about the CruciFiction)... "We DID It!!! ... MY family was entirely involved!!... I found it in a note buried upstairs in the attic & it read: 'We did it' our family, by itself was TOTALLY RESPONSIBLE', signed, Morty."
79. So this leader of the catholics admits their guilt...
Anton Orde ,   From Cyprus   (03.04.11)
NOW WHAT?
80. #73 Dorothy, Why because I read and study books?
JMK ,   NYC   (03.04.11)
Because I have access to the NYC Public Library, Queensborough Public Library and the Brooklyn Public Library combine the largest library system by in the entire world. I lived in Israel there are basically no real libraries research or lending in the whole country.
81. what about the ...?
yahve ,   santa cruize   (03.04.11)
ok, let us consider that the jews did not crucify Jesus Christ. A question remains: why do Jewish zionists combat the Christian faith at all levels with all what they have ? If your interested email me and I can give you all the proof i have.
82. To Hebrew brothers and sisters.
Luiz Felipe Haddad ,   Niteroi, Brazil   (03.05.11)
My Catholic Church has committed several sins against the Jewish people, against the Moslims, against the Evangelicals and against other ones. This was said by Pope John Paul II, year 2000. This is written in much documents after II Vatican Council. But, today, all of it is being erased. There were, also, some lights over the darkness. Saint Maximilian Kolbe, in Auschwittz, offered himself to be dead instead of a Jewish child. Several catholic europeans hode Jewish neighbors, under great risks, in their occupied countries, during II World War. What does it mean? Resentments and shadows ought to desappear. The future shows the Cross and the Star of David, together, into a better world.
83. is god even exist? did jesus? moses?
ygalg ,   israel   (03.05.11)
was Muhammad a genuine prophet or a charlatan? no of the three apologists able to give a convincing answers for the above questions. when you succeed to do so then you have a point. in the meantime you're pointless.
84. #80
Dorothy Friend ,   Tel Aviv   (03.05.11)
And what are your sources to prove that a carpenter chap from Nazareth did not exist? It's not easy to prove a negative. Why can't you, and so many others accept the apparent fact that a guy (and I'm not saying he was divine) actually existed? There were no identity cards in those days, so why do some people believe the likes of, say, Moses existed by Jesus did not? The idea that a rebel existed and died for being a rebel is not beyond possibility. What is so threatening to you in that?
85. #80 Dorothy, Why, because I am not a gullible fool.
JMK ,   NYC   (03.06.11)
Why, because I am well read on the subject, of early christianity and the religions of late antiquity. Why, because my reading brings me to the conclusion, that the New Testament is fiction, that the belief in a myth anthropomorphized means it is fiction, that Christianity is a Greek religion, written in Greek, with all the ideas and beliefs of Greek religions and cultures. Remember this, absence of evidence is evidence of absence.
86. 85Absence of evidence ...
ORA ,   JERUSALEM   (03.06.11)
is evidence of absence? I don t think Einstein would agree with that theory.He tried to prove the inexistence of G-D.His theory did not work.
87. #86 Ora, Einstein? God? Abrahamitic religions are complete..
JMK ,   NYC   (03.07.11)
fictional myth all man made. Einstein who cares what he said about something he knew nothing about. Did Einstein study literary theory, philosophy, history, linguistics? Maybe you should study logic you are at a great deficit in that department?
88. Gee, thanks, your holiness. Now raise the dead.
Scott ,   USA   (01.03.12)
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