Thursday, February 28, 2013  Why the way Jews have treated
Catholics is nothing like the way Catholics have treated Jews.
I am sick unto death of people and their sad attempts to hoist
me on my own petard re: the Pope, the Church and the nasty
things it has said about Jews. Can I explain to you why a stray
line in the Talmud about non Jews being donkeys and the Aleinu
prayer are nothing like eg: Cum Nimis Absurdum, Hebraeorum gens,
or the Good Friday prayer?  Good. Listen up.  DIFFERENCE #1:
Aleinu and the Talmud passages never killed anyone. They have
not been the cause of massacres, pogroms, expulsions, ghettos,
libels, or any of the other hate crimes perpetrated against us
by the Church thanks to the above-mentioned prayers and
teachings. No doctrine of blood purity developed from the Talmud
passages. Gentiles weren't locked in ghettos, or forced to wear
yellow hats, or forbidden from owning property on the basis of
the Aleinu prayer. Sure, things might have gone differently had
we Jews ever acquired poli