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|  | I watched "Fiddler on the Roof" last night
« Thread Started on Apr 20, 2008, 12:43pm » | |
I remember watching Fiddler on the Roof years ago, but didn't quite understand everything about it.
I watched it again last night on our PBS station. Wow! What an impact it made on me! There was a term used that really bothered me. I have heard it before, but for some reason it struck me deeply when I heard it on the program last night. That term was "Christ-killer."
Today, I did a search to find the origins of that phrase. What I found was even more disturbing. According to the Racial Slur data base that I found at: http://www.racialslurs.com/search?q=kill,
the term, "Christ-killer," or "Jesus killer" comes from the WWII era:
"Christ/Jesus killer: Christians in the times of WWII when the Jews were most hated used this slur as a reason to hate Jews."
I have mixed feelings about this. In the first place, it makes me sad that people dared call themselves "Christian," and then participated in such hateful deeds. Is that the way Jesus would have wanted them to behave? Surely not! I suspect that there are always those people throughout history who have a personal agenda and use religion as a catalyse for gathering people up and influencing them into doing their bidding.
It equally bothers me to think that there are some Jewish folks who would look at me and think, "She thinks I killed Jesus." To set the record straight, I do not think that of any Jew that I meet, never have, never will.
Upon further research on this topic, I came across an article,
Gilad Atzmon and the Christ-Killer Accusation: http://www.amin.org/look/amin/en.tpl?IdL....e=1&NrSection=3
In the article there is a passage about Pontius Pilot and the so called, "Passover privilege:"
"It is important to realize that the Gospels were written soon after the Jewish War against Rome which ended in 70 AD; and it was a matter of great embarrassment to the Gospel writers - who desperately wanted their religion to be accepted by Rome - that the central figure of this religion - who had by this time become an apolitical, divine figure, cut off from his Jewish roots - was a Jew who had died upon a Roman cross.
The scene in Matthew Chapter 27 where Pilate washes his hands of responsibility for the death of Jesus is symbolic of the Gospel writers' taking away of the guilt from the Romans. It is said in this scene that every year at Passover the Jews were allowed to set free a prisoner, and that, though Pilate offered to release Jesus, they chose Barabbas and rejected Jesus - but the historical evidence shows that no such "Passover privilege" existed. In this same scene in Matthew, the Jewish crowd cries: "His blood be on us and upon our children!" (27:25) - the basis of centuries of Christian antisemitism."
Could it be that the writers of the day slanted the translations to appease the political powers of the day? This, I plan to study further.
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| | Re: I watched "Fiddler on the Roof" last night
« Reply #1 on Feb 25, 2009, 9:24pm » | |
Apr 20, 2008, 12:43pm, Sue B. wrote:I watched it again last night on our PBS station. Wow! What an impact it made on me!
There was a term used that really bothered me. I have heard it before, but for some reason it struck me deeply when I heard it on the program last night. That term was "Christ-killer." |
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I so looooooooove that movie.
For people that believe that the Jews killed Jesus, I have these verses for them:
John 10:15
15even as the Father knows Me and I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.
John 10:17
17"For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life so that I may take it again.
John 10:18
18"No one has taken it away from Me, but I lay it down on My own initiative I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again This commandment I received from My Father
John 15:13
13"Greater love has no one than this, for his friends.that one lay down his life
1 John 3:16
16We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren
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