I wrote this to a retired Methodist minister.
Fashionable preachers must tell Buddhists and others that Jesus wasn’t all that special, but the Jews are. After all, they must demand that America kill an awfully lot of people and spend a lot of money to help Israel keep the land it took from the Arabs.
You are in the position the Church was in when Galileo proved that earth is not the center of the universe. The idea that Jews invented monotheism and were God’s special pets was OK in the Middle Ages, but it’s silly now.
It will take a long time before the churches stop justifying all those killings in the name of The Chosen People, just as it took the church until the early 1800s to let Galileo back in the Roman Church.
I understand Pope John Paul recently forgave Galileo once and for all for his crime of being a heretic.
It will be a while before theologians stop demanding killing and billions of dollars for God’s Chosen Country in Israel, just as it took a long time after Galileo for the church to stop killing people who said the earth wasn’t the center of the universe.
If you admit Israel is not God’s central concern, you might lose your pension.
Anyway, all that will be needed is a change of fashion for Israel to go out of style, and, once Europe has a Moslem majority, that change of fashion will be right along.
As you said, it takes two hundred pages to justify this nonsense now, and it’s getting longer every day.
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