keras said:
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My posts conflict with your beliefs, so they are 'silly'?
Rather than asking questions and poking the finger at those who post unpalatable truths, either change your beliefs or refute them with proper honest rebuttal.
The Star (Shield) of David, also called
Magen David, is a relatively new Jewish symbol. Supposedly, it represents the shape of King David's shield (but there is no rabbinic support for that claim).
Is there any theological significance to the symbol? Some claim that the top triangle strives upward, toward God, while the lower triangle strives downward, toward the real world. Others note that the intertwining represents the inseparable nature of the Jewish people. Still others claim the three sides stand for the three types of Jews: Kohanim, Levites and Israel. A similar claim could be made for the three major movements. However, these theories have little basis in historical fact.
Unpalatable truths? They are conspiracy theories. I am not going to waste my time on such silliness.
Kind of like the Christian cross...??
"During the Holocaust, the Nazis chose the yellow star as an identifying badge required on the garments of all Jews. After the war, Jews turned this symbol of humiliation and death into a badge of honour. "
According to wiki, it was the RCC that started that practice of marking Jews in the Mid Ages, and if I remember right, didn't Hitler lean toward Catholicism?
A few verses using the word "yellow"
Genesis 1:1 (NKJV)
"yellow"occurs 5 times in
5 verses in the NKJV.
Lev 13:30
“then the priest shall examine the sore; and indeed if it appears deeper than the skin,
and there is in it thin
yellow hair, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It
is a scaly leprosy of the head or beard.
Used 1 time in the NT:
Rev 9:17
And thus I saw the horses in the vision: those who sat on them had breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur
yellow; and the heads of the horses
were like the heads of lions; and out of their mouths came fire, smoke, and brimstone.
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A thread on the holocaust:
The Holocaust: Was it the wrath and judgment of God?
This thread is to discuss a relatively controversial subject: whether or not the Holocaust was the wrath and judgment of God upon the Jews. The question is a controversial one. Going into Scripture, we find examples of what God will do to the Jews if they disobey his commands:
"“‘And I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend my arrows on them; 24 they shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured by plague and poisonous pestilence; I will send the teeth of beasts against them, with the venom of things that crawl in the dust. 25 Outdoors the sword shall bereave, and indoors terror, for young man and woman alike, the nursing child with the man of gray hairs." Deut. 32:23-25 (ESV)
We clearly see in Scripture that God is not a God who is incompatible with a Holocaust. The main argument is actually not a Biblical one but rather a moral one: any God who would punish someone with something like the Holocaust is unjust and cruel. This is particularly true when considering the fact that many children died in the Holocaust and they could not have been in conscious rebellion against God.
I guess I could simplify this thread into three questions:
1) Do you believe that the Holocaust is incompatible with the revealed Scripture of the Judaeo-Christian God?
2) Do you believe that any God who would use the Holocaust as punishment is cruel?
3) Is it possible that the Holocaust was the wrath and judgment of God?
I'll leave the rest open. Thoughts?
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Yellow badge - Wikipedia
Medieval Catholic Europe
In largely Catholic Medieval Europe,
Jews and Muslims were required to wear distinguishable clothing in some periods. These measures were not seen as being inconsistent with
Sicut Judaeis. Although not the first ecclesiastic requirement for non-Christians to wear distinguishable clothing, the
Fourth Council of the Lateran headed by
Pope Innocent III ruled in 1215 that Jews and Muslims must wear distinguishable dress (Latin
habitus). Canon 68 reads, in part:
In some provinces a difference in dress distinguishes the Jews or
Saracens from the Christians, but in certain others such a confusion has grown up that they cannot be distinguished by any difference. Thus it happens at times that through error Christians have relations with the women of Jews or Saracens, and Jews and Saracens with Christian women.
Therefore, that they may not, under pretext of error of this sort, excuse themselves in the future for the excesses of such prohibited intercourse, we decree that such Jews and Saracens of both sexes in every Christian province and at all times shall be marked off in the eyes of the public from other peoples through the character of their dress. Particularly, since it may be read in the writings of Moses [
Numbers 15:37–41], that this very law has been enjoined upon them.
[5]
Innocent III had in 1199 confirmed
Sicut Judaeis, which was also confirmed by
Pope Honorius III in 1216. In 1219, Honorius III issued a dispensation to the Jews of
Castile,
[6] the largest Jewish population in Europe. Spanish Jews normally wore
turbans, which presumably met the requirement to be distinctive.
[7]
Elsewhere, local laws were introduced to bring the canon into effect.
[8] The identifying mark varied from one country to another, and from period to period.
In 1227, the
Synod of Narbonne, in canon 3, ruled:
That Jews may be distinguished from others, we decree and emphatically command that in the center of the breast (of their garments) they shall wear an oval badge, the measure of one finger in width and one half a palm in height ...
[5]
However, these ecclesiastic pronouncements required legal sanctions of a temporal authority. In 1228,
James I of Aragon ordered Jews of
Aragon to wear the badge;
[6] and in 1265, the
Siete Partidas, a legal code enacted in
Castile by
Alfonso X but not implemented until many years later, included a requirement for Jews to wear distinguishing marks.
[9]
On 19 June 1269,
Louis IX of France imposed a fine of ten
livres (one livre was equivalent to a pound of silver) on
Jews found in public without a badge (
Latin:
rota, "wheel",
French:
rouelle or
roue).
[6][10]
The enforcement of wearing the badge is repeated by local councils, with varying degrees of fines, at
Arles 1234 and 1260,
Béziers 1246,
Albi 1254,
Nîmes 1284 and 1365,
Avignon 1326 and 1337,
Rodez 1336, and
Vanves 1368.
[6] The "rota" looked like a ring of white or yellow.
[11]
The shape and colour of the patch also varied, although
the colour was usually white or yellow. Married women were often required to wear two bands of blue on their veil or head-scarf.
[12]
In 1274,
Edward I of England enacted the
Statute of Jewry, which also included a requirement:
Each Jew, after he is seven years old, shall wear a distinguishing mark on his outer garment, that is to say, in the form of
two Tables joined, of
yellow felt of the length of six inches and of the breadth of three inches.
[13][14]
In German-speaking Europe, a requirement for a badge was less common than the
Judenhut or
Pileum cornutum (a cone-shaped head dress, common in medieval illustrations of Jews). In 1267, in a special session, the
Vienna city council required Jews to wear a
Judenhut; the badge does not seem to have been worn in Austria.
[15] There is a reference to a dispensation from the badge in
Erfurt on 16 October 1294, the earliest reference to the badge in Germany.
[6]
There were also attempts to enforce the wearing of full-length robes, which in late 14th century
Rome were supposed to be red. In
Portugal a red
star of David was used.
[16]
Enforcement of the rules was variable; in
Marseilles the magistrates ignored accusations of breaches, and in some places individuals or communities could buy exemption.
Cathars who were considered "first time offenders" by the Catholic Church and the Inquisition were also forced to wear yellow badges, albeit in the form of crosses, about their person.
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Nazi Germany and Axis Powers
After the German
invasion of Poland in 1939 there were initially different local decrees requiring Jews to wear a distinctive sign under the
General Government. The sign was a white armband with a blue
Star of David on it; in the
Warthegau a yellow badge in the form of a Star of David on the left side of the breast and on the back.
[19] The requirement to wear the Star of David with the word
Jude (
German for Jew) – inscribed in letters meant to resemble Hebrew writing – was then extended to all Jews over the age of six in the
Reich and the
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (by a decree issued on September 1, 1941, signed by
Reinhard Heydrich)
[20][21] and was gradually introduced in other German-occupied areas, where local words were used (e.g.,
Juif in
French,
Jood in
Dutch).
One observer reported that the star increased German non-Nazi sympathy for Jews as the impoverished citizens who wore them were, contrary to Nazi propaganda, obviously not the cause of
German failure in the east. In the
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, government had to ban
hat tipping toward Jews and other courtesies that became popular as protests against the
German occupation. A
whispering campaign that claimed that the action was in response to the United States government requiring
German Americans to wear swastikas was unsuccessful.
[22]