I just found this thread.
Every religion has their own beliefs and way of worship.
I believe some of those who are antisemitic are actually more against the practice of Judaism by converted Christians
Proselyte is an interesting study in itself, and is only mentioned
4 times in the NT, 3 of those in Acts:
[I may create a thread on that when time allows]
Genesis 1:1 (NKJV)
"proselyte"
occurs 2 times in
2 verses. 1 time each in Gospels and Acts
Matthew 23:15
'Woe to ye, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
because ye go round the sea and the dry land to make one proselyte,
and whenever it may happen -- ye make him a son of gehenna twofold more than yourselves.
Genesis 1:1 (NKJV)
"proselytes"
occurs 2 times in
2 verses, both in Acts:
Acts 2:10
“Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya adjoining Cyrene,
visitors from Rome, both Jews and
proselytes,
Here is some info on the topic at these sites, relating more to Christianity than outside of it:
Christianity and antisemitism - Wikipedia
Jewish converts
See also:
Jews for Jesus
The
Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), the largest Protestant Christian denomination in the U.S., has explicitly rejected suggestions that it should back away from seeking to convert Jews, a position which critics have called antisemitic, but a position which Baptists see as consistent with their view that salvation is found solely through faith in Christ.
In 1996 the SBC approved a resolution calling for efforts to seek the conversion of Jews "as well as for the salvation of 'every kindred and tongue and people and nation.'"
Most
Evangelicals agree with the SBC position, and some have been supporting efforts specifically seeking Jews' conversion. At the same time these groups are among the most pro-Israeli groups. (
For more, see Christian Zionism.)
Among the controversial groups that have found support from some Evangelical churches is
Jews for Jesus, which claims that Jews can "complete" their Jewish faith by accepting Jesus as the Messiah.
Throughout the 19th century and into the 20th, the Roman Catholic Church still incorporated strong antisemitic elements, despite increasing attempts to separate
anti-Judaism (opposition to the Jewish religion on religious grounds) and
racial antisemitism.
Pope Pius VII (1800–1823) had the walls of the Jewish
ghetto in Rome rebuilt after the Jews were
emancipated by
Napoleon, and Jews were restricted to the ghetto through the end of the
Papal States in 1870.
Official Catholic organizations, such as the
Jesuits, banned candidates "who are descended from the Jewish race unless it is clear that their father, grandfather, and great-grandfather have belonged to the Catholic Church" until 1946.
Brown University historian
David Kertzer, working from the Vatican archive, has argued in his book
The Popes Against the Jews that in the 19th and early 20th centuries the Roman Catholic Church adhered to a distinction between "good antisemitism" and "bad antisemitism".
The "bad" kind promoted hatred of Jews because of their descent. This was considered un-Christian because the Christian message was intended for all of humanity regardless of ethnicity; anyone could become a Christian.
The "good" kind criticized alleged
Jewish conspiracies to control newspapers, banks, and other institutions, to care only about accumulation of wealth, etc.
Many Catholic bishops wrote articles criticizing Jews on such grounds, and, when they were accused of promoting hatred of Jews, they would remind people that they condemned the "bad" kind of antisemitism.
Kertzer's work is not without critics. Scholar of Jewish-Christian relations
Rabbi David G. Dalin, for example, criticized Kertzer in the
Weekly Standard for using evidence selectively.
Anti-Judaism - Wikipedia
Anti-Judaism
"The terms 'anti-Judaism' (the Christian aversion toward the Jewish religion) and 'anti-Semitism' (aversion toward the Jews as a racial group) are omnipresent in the controversies over the churches' responsibility with regard to the extermination of the Jews" and "since 1945, most of the works on 'anti-Semitism' have contrasted this term with 'anti-Judaism'".
[53][54]
According to
Jeanne Favret-Saada, the scientific analysis of the links and difference between both terms is made difficult for two reasons. First is the definition: some scholars argue that
anti-Judaic refers to Christian theology and to Christian theology only while others argue that the term applies also to the discriminatory policy of the churches [...]. Some authors also advance that eighteenth-century catechisms were "antisemitic" and others argue that the term cannot be used before the date of its first appearance in 1879. The second difficulty is that these two concepts place themselves in different contexts: the old and religious for the
anti-Judaism' the new and political for anti-Semitism
.[53]
In the Reformation
See also:
Martin Luther and the Jews
Martin Luther has been accused of antisemitism, primarily in relation to his statements about
Jews in his book
On the Jews and their Lies, which describes the Jews in extremely harsh terms, excoriating them, and providing detailed recommendation for a
pogrom against them and their permanent oppression and/or expulsion. According to
Paul Johnson, it "may be termed the first work of modern anti-Semitism, and a giant step forward on the road to
the Holocaust".
[50] In contrast,
Roland Bainton, noted church historian and Luther biographer, wrote "One could wish that Luther had died before ever this tract was written. His position was entirely religious and in no respect racial".
[51]
Peter Martyr Vermigli, a shaper of
Reformed Protestantism, took pains to maintain the contradiction, going back to
Paul of Tarsus, of Jews being both enemy and friend, writing: "The Jews are not odious to God for the very reason they are Jews; for how could this have happened since they were embellished with so many great gifts...."
[52]
Antisemitism - Wikipedia
Religious antisemitism
See also:
Anti-Judaism,
Christianity and antisemitism, and
Islam and antisemitism
Religious antisemitism, also known as
anti-Judaism, is antipathy towards Jews because of their perceived religious beliefs.
In theory, antisemitism and attacks against individual Jews would stop if Jews stopped practicing
Judaism or changed their public faith, especially by
conversion to the official or right religion.
However, in some cases discrimination continues after
conversion, as in the case of Christianized
Marranos or Iberian Jews in the late 15th century and 16th century who were suspected of secretly
practising Judaism or Jewish customs.............................
Execution of
Mariana de Carabajal (converted Jew), accused of a relapse into Judaism,
Mexico City, 1601
Although the origins of antisemitism are rooted in the Judeo-Christian conflict, other forms of antisemitism have developed in modern times.
