>>14856868>The irony of Christianity is that Jesus himself was a Jew, so the hatred of Jews from Christians is basically oxy-moronic.There actually isn't much irony at all. The implication is that God came down to free the slaves of egypt and formed a covenant with Jacob. Within that covenant was the agreement that his people (the people of Abraham) would sacrifice their own sexual pleasure in exchange for God promising them a kingdom on earth that is like heaven for them to inherit and that they could take refuge in him.
Where the anger and conflict comes from is Christians saying that the covenant is for those who follow the commandments and do as Christ said i.e. circumcision of the heart (to renounce desires and sexual gratification for a higher purpose to become part of the covenant) while Jews claim that the covenant is simply a blood covenant where if they are born into a relation to Jacob or Abraham they automatically inherit the kingdom because they were simply chosen.
That is my understanding, this is what the whole whole Jesus thing was about. Jesus comes to the Pharisees and points out that they are not actually doing good, that they are not keeping the commandments because the point of the law was for them to be kind to people and be good, and instead of doing that they had become wicked people who were simply lusting after social status, money and gratification and masquerading as holy men and teachers and simultaneously secretly praying to the pagan gods for material wealth and social position.
They then killed him, their point being that if god had chosen him, he would have sparred him. And Christ's point was that your flesh is not what matters, if you gain everything in the world but change yourself from a good person to cancer then what have you truly profited? If you are unhappy and unfulfilled in material and sexual and social gratification then what's the point? Is not joy and friendship and fulfillment what you're truly searching for?
