Words Like Locusts Flew From Her Fingers

Fundamentalist Christians No Friends to Jews

Salon.com News | Jews and the Christian right: Is the honeymoon over?
On Nov. 3, Abraham Foxman gave a speech to an ADL meeting, calling attacks on church-state separation the “key domestic challenge to the American Jewish community and to our democratic values.” “[T]oday we face a better financed, more sophisticated, coordinated, unified, energized, and organized coalition of groups in opposition to our policy positions on church-state separation than ever before,” he said. “Their goal is to implement their Christian worldview. To Christianize America. To save us!” Among the major players in this campaign, Foxman listed Focus on the Family, the Alliance Defense Fund, the American Family Association and the Family Research Council.

Well, it’s about time the Jews in this country figured out that the religious right is not their friend! Sure, fundamentalist Christians are big fans of Israel — but not because it’s a “homeland for the Jews”. They like Israel because of its supposed future history importance in the “final days” and because it’s where Jesus spent a lot of time. As for the Jews who happen to live there — the fundamentalist Christians I’ve met pretty much think they’re going to hell.

There’s a big “mega church” here in northern Virginia that’s headed up by a guy who converted from Judaism to Christianity and he’s made no secret of his belief that the Jews have got it all wrong. He and his “mega church” are formally connected with the Jews for Jesus organization and have earned some criticism locally for their proselytizing. (The church’s motto, by the way, is “Impacting Secular Washington for Christ”… Eeeeeew! Doesn’t that just send chills up your spine?)

If I were Jewish, I’d feel threatened by an organization like that. I’m surprised there haven’t been more Jewish groups speaking out against this sort of thing. As chummy as these people might be with individual Jews, make no mistake: They have no respect for Jewish religious beliefs. In the eyes of a fundamentalist Christian, the Jews are just “occupying” Israel until Jesus returns and either converts their sorry asses over to Christianity or sends them straight on down to hell.