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This letter was prompted by the Visitor View of Might 19, written by Rebecca Stanfel. the director of the Montana Jewish Undertaking (MJP) regarding Rep. and Rabbi Ed Stafman not being allowed to steer the invocation prayer on the previous legislative session “regardless of having been scheduled to take action on a number of events. Every time he was deferred, a Christian legislator was given the dignity as a substitute.” With the rise in antisemitic incidents in current instances, she wrote to Speaker Matt Regier (Might 3) explaining her issues and requested for an evidence of what occurred and prolonged an invite or a private tour of the not too long ago aquired Temple Emanu-El in Helena for him to study extra in regards to the MJP and the realities of being Jewish in Montana in 2023. He had but to reply when she submitted her editorial. To cite Rebecca, “His silence is unacceptable.”

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Here is my rationalization of what occurred. It began virtually 2000 years in the past when the fervour of Jesus narratives had been being instructed and written down. John Dominic Crossan, an Irish, former Catholic priest and world-renowned biblical Scholar printed a controversial ebook in 1995 entitled “Who Killed Jesus? Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism within the Gospel Story of the Demise of Jesus.” He differentiates between historical past remembered, prophesy historicized, polemics, propaganda, story, parable, and so on. He states, “Jewish calls for for Jesus’ crucifixion and Roman declarations of Jesus’ innocence just isn’t prophesy, and neither is it historical past. It’s Christian propaganda.” (web page 152). He goes on in nice element to clarify his place, and it is properly price studying. Crossan contends that the primary Christians had been comparatively powerless Jews and that this theological tenet they fabricated was innocent. “However, as soon as the Roman Empire turned Christian, that fiction turned deadly. Within the mild of later Christian anti-Judaism and finally of genocidal anti-Semitism, it’s now not attainable looking back to think about that keenness fiction as comparatively benign propaganda. Nonetheless explicable its origins, defensible its invectives, and comprehensible its motives amongst Christians preventing for survival, its repetition has now turn out to be the longest lie, and, for our personal integrity, we Christians should eventually title it as such”. One last quote from a lot earlier within the ebook — “The Ardour narratives problem each the honesty of Christian historical past and the integrity of Christian conscience.”

Houston, we have now an issue.

Jim Sheehan,

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