Joshua Stein
Jewish-Christian interfaith dialogue has failed to curb rising antisemitism, including and especially among Christians. Christian institutions are largely indifferent and inactive on these issues. I'm going to keep working on it, despite this.
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I think interfaith work being Jewish and Christian communities is going to fail to curb rising antisemitism. Christian antisemitism, in particular, is going to continue to rise and endanger Jewish people, as a result of Christian institutional indifference towards the safety of Jewish people. I will do interfaith work anyway.

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Show threadDamnKimberleeDec 30, 2022
@philosotroll it’s because the “Christian religion has been sold out to “corporate Jesus” who’s nothing more than a Trojan horse for Satan.
Show threadJoshua SteinJan 2, 2023
@damnkimberlee I think that makes the change look much more recent than it actually is. The reality is that Christianity (even prior to corporate incarnations like the prosperity gospel and megachurch varieties) has always had a tense relationship with Jews, largely on the basis that they think Jews *should* be Christians. Sometimes that turns to open hostility, as we see with Chrysostom, Luther, and other historical Christian figures.
Show threadJCDec 31, 2022
@philosotroll it seems to me evangelicals are on the other side. Most support against all prejudice comes from liberals a lot of us ex Catholics ex Christians. I left the church when the stopped supporting the constitution then after they upped their prejudice against the lgbtq community. And now they seem to hate all others
Show threadJoshua SteinJan 2, 2023
@carjjc2 For a long time, I think there was an alliance of convenience between a lot of Jewish Zionists (even ones who were pretty politically moderate) and these evangelicals; we saw that with people like Lieberman. I think that's deteriorated as the Israeli gov't has become more anti-diaspora and the evangelicals have become more openly (as opposed to dogwhistle) antisemitic. Though some is just the far right getting way crazier since McCain's '08 run.
Show threadJewish conversationsJan 5, 2023

Joshua, are there any places where progress is happening? Maybe we should be looking to grassroots level efforts instead of more formal organization ones? The sharp rise in #antisemitism among many different groups is part of it.
How do we best balance?
How can we best decide where to fight antisemitism (and we have to) and where we should try to reach out?

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