Comments on: TIA Tuesday: Hitler, the Crusades, and the Spanish Inquisition http://blog.evangelicalrealism.com/2008/09/23/tia-tuesday-hitler-the-crusades-and-the-spanish-inquisition/ The theology of Reality Sun, 11 Sep 2011 22:49:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Deacon Duncan http://blog.evangelicalrealism.com/2008/09/23/tia-tuesday-hitler-the-crusades-and-the-spanish-inquisition/comment-page-1/#comment-3207 Deacon Duncan Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:29:35 +0000 http://blog.evangelicalrealism.com/?p=458#comment-3207 Wow, check <a href=http://www.theologyweb.com/campus/showpost.php?p=2450464&postcount=290" rel="nofollow">this</a> out. Apparently JP Holding equates having a distinctive ethnic identity with deserving genocide: <blockquote> <blockquote>...Nor can it be denied that historic Judaism, rooted in the Old Testament, is a large part of what gave the Jews their distinctive, exclusionary ethnic identity...</blockquote> Wow. What a polite way to say that the Jews got what was coming to them in the Holocaust, Dumplin'. </blockquote> Sorry, JP, but I can't agree that it's even possible for any ethnic group to deserve genocide at all, let alone deserving it simply for being a distinctive ethnic group. (And that goes for <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=i%20sam%2015&version=31" rel="nofollow">Amalekites</a> too.) Wow, check this out. Apparently JP Holding equates having a distinctive ethnic identity with deserving genocide:

…Nor can it be denied that historic Judaism, rooted in the Old Testament, is a large part of what gave the Jews their distinctive, exclusionary ethnic identity…

Wow. What a polite way to say that the Jews got what was coming to them in the Holocaust, Dumplin’.

Sorry, JP, but I can’t agree that it’s even possible for any ethnic group to deserve genocide at all, let alone deserving it simply for being a distinctive ethnic group. (And that goes for Amalekites too.)

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